CCE 4013 – Real-Time Networks

Lecturer: Dr C J Debono

Credits: 4 ECTS

Lectures: 2 hrs/wk

Tutorials: 4 hrs

Prerequisite: CCE 2002, CCE 3021

Lecturer: Dr Ing. Carl James Debono

Semester: 1

Real-Time System Modeling

• Concepts of soft real-time and hard real-time design and modeling.

• Concepts and generation of behavioral models.

• Real-time computing, static and dynamic priority scheduling.

• Rate monotonic scheduling.

• Fault tolerant systems.

Neural Networks

• Multilayer perceptron, Radial basis function networks, Kohonen networks, Hopfield networks.

• Recurrent neural networks.

• Supervised and Unsupervised learning.

• Parallel architectures for neural networks.

Assessment

Coursework – 10% Exam – 90%

Textbooks •

C.M. Krishna, K.G. Shin, Real-Time Systems, McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0-07-114243-6

• D.W. Patterson, Artificial Neural Networks Theory and Applications, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0-13-

295353-6