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ECE Department
313 O'Connell Tech Center
CSU Chico
Chico, CA 95929-0888
Tel: (530) 898-5343
Fax: (530) 898-4956
E-Mail: elce@csuchico.edu
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BS Computer Engineering Design Experience
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The computer engineering program at CSU, Chico is
a balance of engineering science and design. The
freshman and sophomore year courses are
structured to lay a solid foundation for the
junior and senior level design courses by the
introduction of courses in hardware, software,
and the engineering sciences (math, physics, and
chemistry).
Design
methodology and analysis techniques are stressed
throughout the curriculum in the majority of the
core courses required for graduation. The lecture
classes are typically complemented by laboratory
experiments that the student has designed,
simulated and analyzed before commencing with the
actual hands on construction and testing.
Students are well prepared in the
software/hardware design procedure when they
reach the final classes of Microprocessor System
Design and the Senior Project Classes.
Skills in
both software and hardware are employed in the
design of a microcomputer system that require the
student to write his own operating system in a
high level language ( e.g. C or C++) with
embedded assembly language. The hardware support
requirement is the design and implementation of a
direct memory access (DMA) controller using a PLD
or FPGA and a peripheral interface controller
that supports a printer and an external bus.
Students have several pattern electives to choose
from in advanced software and hardware design
classes. Such classes include topics in networks,
embedded systems, VHDL, digital signal
processing, state machine design, VLSI, control
systems, communications and artificial
intelligence.
The
senior project class brings together, in a
balance of solid software and hardware skills
acquired throughout the required and elective
curriculum, a culminating experience which
involves teamwork, design, report writing and
oral presentation. Many students enter their
projects in the annual IEEE student competition.
These experiences prepare our graduates to be
successful engineers with an awareness of the
many challenges involved in the work
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