Approved Professional Training

Department approved practice in industry in one of the areas of Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering. A report is required. Prerequisite: Department approval. RF printed circuit technology drivers. PCB materials. PCB layer stickups. Via structures. Edge plating. Cavity constructions. Thermal management. Grounding and shielding. Recycling. PCB design. Prerequisites: EEN 311, EEN 331. systems including CPU, memory, pipelines, multicores and multiprocessors. The emphasis is on analyzing major system components with impact on performance such as: pipelining, instructional and thread level parallelism, I/O devices, memory hierarchy and cache, branch prediction methods, speculations for data and branch predictions. Different multithreading implementations, virtual machines, UMA, NUMA and COMA, memory architectures in shared multiprocessor and single processors, and cache coherence issues. Prerequisite: EEN 323/CSC 312.