Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Computer System Design (17.E230)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Computer Engineering and Computer Communications

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Year: 3, Semester: Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Power Software Engineering (Year: 2, Semester: Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Information Engineering (Year: 3, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Computer Engineering and Computer Communication
ECTS	8

Students learn basics of computer systems architecture, with embedded systems in focus, and training for digital design and programing of embedded computer systems.

Knowledge about basic terminology, standards and technologies in the field of computer systems, as well as methods and tools for hardware and software development of embedded computer sistems.

Short history of computing systems. Central processing unit. Memory mapping. Projecting central processing unit. Arithmetic in floating point. Processing acceleration. Memories and memory hierarchy. Input-output devices. Buses. Architecture of graphic processing unit. Architecture of games. Git, github and teamwork. C programing of embedded computers. VHDL digital design of coprocessor. Intercation of hardware and software. Course project.

Lectures. Tutorials. Computer laboratory classes. Consultations. Students attend lectures and computer computer laboratory classes. Earned knowledge is tested during semester on computing laboratory classes and coarse project on computers, and at the end of the semester, when theoretical part of knowledge is assessed at the regular examination, by test exam.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Mark J.P. Wolf	The video game explosion: a history from PONG to Playstation and beyond	2008	ABC-CLIO	English
Bernard Perron, Mark J.P. Wolf	The Video Game Theory Reader 2	2008	Routledge	English
Louise H. Crockett, Ross A. Elliot, Martin A. Enderwitz, Robert W. Stewart	Zynq Book	2014	Strathclyde Academic Media	English
Frank Vahid, Tony Givargis	Embedded system design: a unified hardware/software introduction	2002	Wiley New York	English