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Design Project B - COMP4601
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Computer Science and Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4601
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP3222 and COMP3601.
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Hardware design and systems prototyping using field-programmable gate arrays. Emphasises laboratory experience in programming and interfacing with FPGAs. Acceleration of soft-core processors, design of custom accelerator blocks and configurable logic-based applications from areas such as telecommunications, signal processing, cryptography and biological sequencing. Techniques for designing and implementing configurable systems. CAD challenges posed by the area. Design validation, performance analysis and power consumption. Reconfigurable systems.

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