| CPE 3280: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: EE 1210 and EE/CSC/CPE 3760. Design of hardware and software for embedded systems using a modern microcontroller. Covers hardware interfacing, including memory system design, interrupt interfacing, and use of internal and external peripheral devices. Emphasis is placed on assembly language programming of the microcontroller, including device drivers, exception and interrupt handling, and interfacing with higher-level languages. Laboratory exercises require assembly language programming and hardware design. Extra fee. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 3350: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 2431 and either CSC 3750 or CSC/CPE/EE 3760. Introduction to operating systems and systems programming. Surveys systems software; operating system interface and functions; utilities and shell programming; linkers and loaders; translators; and processes, concurrency and concurrent programming. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 3550: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: EE 2727. An introduction to principles of modern communication systems with an emphasis on current technological applications. Covers basics such as transmission media (electrical, optical and wireless), analog and digital signaling techniques, data encoding methods and multiplexing mechanisms. Modern communication protocols for networks and radio links are analyzed. High-level issues such as security, encryption, cellular management and network modeling are studied. Extra fee. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 3760: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 2430 and EE 1210. Study of organization and structuring of the major hardware components of computers. Includes mechanics of information transfer and control within a digital computer system. Introduces computer architecture, machine instruction sets and assembly language programming. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 4150: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 3150. Covers topics in software engineering, including team programming, project planning and management, SDLC (software development life cycle) and software quality assurance. Course requirements include the design and implementation of a team software project. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
Restrictions:Senior students only. |
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| CPE 4211: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: EE/CPE 3280 and EE/EGR 3730. Study of mixed digital and analog system design, including embedded software design. Student teams begin a system level design of a project (a nondisclosure agreement may be required). Projects typically include use of a microcontroller and may include analog-to-digital converters, digital signal-processing chips, external memories, power supplies, user interfaces and more. Students provide detailed schedules for building prototype systems and present periodic progress reports. During the course, students produce a technical specification, undergo several design reviews and design a printed circuit board for a prototype system. Extra fee. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 4212: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CPE/EE 4211. Continued study of mixed digital and analog system design, including embedded software design. Student teams continue to implement and refine the prototype hardware and software designs from EE/CPE 4211. Teams write detailed technical reports and submit their designs to design reviews. Periodic progress reports and team presentations are required. Extra fee. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 4350: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CPE/CSC 3350. Introduces the major functions of operating systems. Covers processes and concurrency; concurrent programming; resource allocation, contention and control; scheduling, memory management and device management. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 4750: () Offerings |
| Prerequisites: CSC 3750 or CSC/CPE/EE 3760. Recommended: CSC 2431. Studies concepts and terminology of computer networks, equipment, and protocols. Emphasis is on local area networks. A laboratory project is required. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 4760: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: CSC 3750 or CSC/CPE/EE 3760. Recommended: CSC 2431. Studies the architecture of multiprocessor, vector, pipelined and parallel computers. Emphasis is placed on principles of parallelism and the architecture of state-of-the-art supercomputers. A team project is required. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division
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| CPE 4899: () Offerings |
| Prerequisite: EE/CPE 4212. In this capstone course designs from EE 4212 are developed into a manufacturing prototype and tested. Covers testing methodology (hardware and software), board debugging and documentation methodology. Teams author operations manuals and detailed technical manuals. Periodic progress reports and final presentations are required. Includes study of vocation in engineering, writing reflective responses, and preparation of a multimedia portfolio of major projects students have finished. The University Christian Faith Exploration (CFE) senior project requirement is met through assignments in this course. Extra fee. |
| Attributes:Upper-Division, Writing "W" Course
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