CDA-COMPUTER DESIGN/ARCHITECTURE

CDA 2948 Service Learning Field Study I . . . . . 1-3(VARIABLE)
Placement in community agency or other social organizational setting related to field of study. Supervision by faculty and agency. Students and faculty "customize" courses to fit a full range of services that are available in the setting. Student must be able to draw correlation between the discipline and field study. Journal and reflective experience paper are required. With the agreement of the student's faculty sponsor, a minimum of 6-8 hours per week must be done at the field site per semester hour of credit.

CDA 3100 Microprocessor Systems . . . . . 3(3,0)
Introductory microprocessor-based computers, including basic microprocessor architecture, machine language programming, I/O support chips and an introduction to assembler language programming. Prerequisite: COP XXXX (Any course in programming).

CDA 3101 Introduction to Computer Organization . . . . . 3(3,0)
Organization of computing systems. Logical basis of computer structure. Machine representation of instructions and data, flow of control, and basic machine instructions. Assembly language programming. Prerequisite: CIS 3020; MAC 2311 (CS/CE/EE majors) or MAC 2233 (CIS majors); CDA 3100 (CS/CIS majors) or EEL 3701C (EE/CE majors). NOTE: EEL 3701C is required for joint UF/UWF Engineering Programs. CDA 3100 is required for UWF Computer Science majors.

CDA 3948 Service Learning Field Study II . . . . . 1-3(VARIABLE)
Placement in community agency or other social organizational setting related to field of study. Supervision by faculty and agency. Students and faculty "customize" courses to fit a full range of services that are available in the setting. Student must be able to draw correlation between the discipline and field study. Journal and reflective experience paper are required. With the agreement of the student's faculty sponsor, a minimum of 6-8 hours per week must be done at the field site per semester hour of credit.

CDA 6158 Advanced Computer Architecture . . . . . 3(3,0)
An analysis of the design of modern computer systems including pipelining, array processors, memory hierarchies with caching, bus control and I/O control. Discussion of alternate architectures: tightly and loosely coupled multiple processor systems, single- and multiple-instruction streams. Distributed systems. Illustrations using existing micro, mini, mainframe and parallel computers. Prerequisite: CDA 3101

CDA 6173 Computer Based Control System Design . . . . . 3(3,0)
Capstone design course for the systems and control engineering program. Students undertake design projects that embody the principles of required core courses. The design project culminates in an oral presentation and a formal written final report. Prerequisites: COP 5235, STA 5825 and STA 6826.

CDA 6930 Advanced Topics in Computer Design and Architecture . . . . . 3(3,0)
Selected topics in computer design and architecture. Prerequisites will vary according to specific subject material to be covered.


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