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- program an operation (multiplication or division) in microcode
- design a state machine (extension of microprogramming) to solve
a simple control problem, like, e.g., traffic lights with
extensions of the state-machine to react to the incoming traffic
etc.
- estimate the average access time to a memory system for different
cache structures
- evaluation of the software and hardware requirements for a
simple task, like a processor-based printer spooler
- problem analysis of a task: identification of events
(interrupts) and their frequency,
- choice of an appropriate interprocess communication
- coarse program design in structure charts to estimate
load of the system and processor and memory requirements
- (to be defined)
Darius Burschka
2002-01-20