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Dedicated Processors

Course Title: Dedicated Processors

Code: 3ФЕИТ07007A

ECTS points: 6 ECTS

Number of classes per week: 3+0+0+3

Lecturer: Prof. D-r Aristotel Tentov, PhD; Prof. D-r Danijela Efnusheva, PhD

Course Goals (acquired competencies): Acquiring knowledge of different application purpose processors. Design of application purpose processors.

Course Syllabus: Acquiring knowledge of different types of dedicated processors. Fields of application of dedicated processors: multimedia, image processing, digital signal processing, network processing, wired and wireless networks, security and protection of computer systems, cryptography, low-power consumption processing, smart devices, smart home etc. Concepts and techniques for dedicated processors design. Design of instruction set and hardware components for special purpose. Practical aspects of hardware/software co-design in dedicated processors design.

Literature:

Required Literature

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1

Panos C. Lekkas

Network processors: architectures, protocols and platforms

McGraw Hill

2003

2

Paolo Ienne, Rainer Leupers

Customizable Embedded Processors: Design Technologies and Applications

Elsevier

2007

3

F. Mayer-Lindenberg

Dedicated Digital Processors: Methods in Hardware/Software Co-Design

Wiley

2004