Example Assignments

• 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)