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Senior Courses
Computer Engineering335
Programming Fundamentals for Electrical Engineers
Key features of the C programming language. Pointers, memory models and memory management. Modular design of software; information hiding. Manipulation of text files and binary files. Introduction to recursion. Course Hours:3 units; (3-1T-1.5) Prerequisite(s):Engineering 233 or Digital Engineering 233. Antirequisite(s):Credit for Computer Engineering 335 and either Computer Engineering 339 or Physics 381 will not be allowed.
Organization of a simple stored-program computer: CPU, busses and memory. Instruction sets, machine code, and assembly language. Conventions for assembly language generated by compilers. Floating-point number representation. Hardware organization. Address translation and virtual memory. Input/output devices, computer interfacing, interrupt handling and multi-tasking systems. Course Hours:3 units; (3-1T-1.5) Prerequisite(s):Electrical Engineering 353; and Computer Engineering 335 or 339 or Software Engineering for Engineers 337.
MOS transistor fundamentals (D.C. characteristics, large signal model, transient behaviour). Transistor level implementation of standard MOS logic gates. Other MOS logic blocks. MOS memory (static and dynamic). Interfacing various logic families. Introduction to integrated circuit design. Course Hours:3 units; (3-1T-3/2) Prerequisite(s):Electrical Engineering 343 and 361; or Engineering Physics 488.
Impacts of integrated circuit technology on processor and memory system design and performance. Tradeoffs in instruction set design. Caches. Virtual memory. Enhancement of instruction throughput with instruction-level, data-level, and thread-level parallelism. Introduction to multicore microarchitecture and programming. Course Hours:3 units; (3-1T) Prerequisite(s):Computer Engineering 369 and 511.
Development of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools for digital circuits, algorithmic definition and design; partitioning, clustering, placement routing and timing techniques for digital circuits; applications in other areas of engineering. Course Hours:3 units; (3-1T) Prerequisite(s):Electrical Engineering 353. Antirequisite(s):Credit for Computer Engineering 507 and Electrical Engineering 519.38 (AlgorithmsCom-AidDesignOfIcs) will not be allowed.
Review of computer architecture; microcontrollers and their instruction sets; interfacing using common input/output devices, debugging and other software engineering practices, strategies for interrupt handling and exception handling; Interfacing using high level and assembly languages; software and hardware optimizations to achieve real time operations; real time operating systems; Embedded real-time applications. Course Hours:3 units; (3-1T-3/2) Prerequisite(s):Computer Engineering 369. Antirequisite(s):Credit for Computer Engineering 511 and Software Engineering for Engineers 460 will not be allowed.
Review of microprocessor fundamentals. Comparison of basic system architectures for RISC, CISC and application-specific processors. Processor characteristics needed to match the requirements for specific applications. Hardware and software optimization techniques for accelerating applications and achieving system requirements on the capabilities of a given platform. Comparison of custom and current commercial processor and accelerator architectures. Elements of Hardware-Software co-design and development processes. Practical applications and laboratories. Course Hours:3 units; (3-1T-3/2) Prerequisite(s):Computer Engineering 369.
Analyzing the complexity of computer arithmetic algorithms, fundamental issues concerning computational complexity problems with applications to engineering problems, including signal and image processing, cryptography and data mining. Course Hours:3 units; (3-1T) Prerequisite(s):Computer Engineering 335 or 339 or Software Engineering for Software Engineers 337. Antirequisite(s):Credit for Computer Engineering 517 and 519.34 (Comp Arithmetic & Comp Complexity) will not be allowed.
Current topics in computer engineering. Course Hours:3 units; (3-2) Prerequisite(s): Consent of the Department. Notes: Consult Department for announcement of topics. MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT