Prerequisite: 4400:101 or permission. Introduction to programming. Environment and tools. C programming language. Machine level data forms and organization.

Prerequisite: 208 or 3460:209 and 3450:208. Introduces the design and architecture of modern computer systems. Data and instruction representation. Conventional computer organization. Hardware and software design processes. The hardware/software interface.

Prerequisite: 4400:360, 465. Use of VLSI design environments in the development of large digital systems. Schematic capture, simulation and ver4ication. Integration of standard building blocks. Design project.

Prerequisites: 330, 3460:316 and 4400:263. Modem computer system design. Application of concepts of process management memory management, file systems, I/O systems, protection and security. Distributed and network operating systems.

Prerequisites: 208 and senior standing. Numerical modeling for embedded scientific applications. Accuracy with fixed and floating point systems. Analysis of complexity. Distributed processing. Object-oriented packaging in C++.

Prerequisites: 208 or equivalent. Investigation of object-oriented design paradigm and the design implementations with the object-oriented programming language C++.

Prerequisite: 410 and 4400:371. Simulation of continuous systems on a digital computer. Methods and tools for linear, nonlinear, and chaotic systems.

Prerequisite: Senior standing or permission. Introduction to the design and development of expert systems.

Prerequisite: 441 or equivalent. Study of knowledge acquisition and expert system project man­agement.

Prerequisite: permission. Introduction to the design and development of frame-based expert systems.

Prerequisite: permission. Introduction to the design and development of fuzzy logic expert systems.

Prerequisite: 370. Advanced VLSI design. MOSFET structures, design rules and fabrication. Static, dynamic CMOS. PLAs, ROMs and RAMs. Layout methodologies and took. System architecture.

Prerequisite: 330. Design of advanced processors at the microarchirecture level. Pipelining. Superscale, vector and VLIW architecture. Instruction-level parallelism. Compiler support. Multiprocessor architectures.

(May be taken more than once) Prerequisite: permission of department chair. Special topics in computer engineering.