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The Computer Systems specialization track provides students with both a broad
view of the field of computer engineering and also the in-depth technical
knowledge necessary to solve complex technical problems involving computer
hardware and digital systems. Facilities include a well maintained digital
systems laboratory and a microprocessor laboratory, in addition to the
microelectronics laboratory and the ECE department and NPS computing
facilities. Computing resources include an SRC Computer Corp. reconfigurable
super computer, in addition to conventional high-end Windows, Linux, and Unix
workstations. State of the art computer aided design software tools are used
extensively in courses and research.
Courses cover a wide range of topics that are critically important to the armed
forces, including fault tolerant and high availability computing, parallel
processing and reconfigurable computing, microprocessors and embedded computing,
FPGA and ASIC design, etc...
Computer Systems faculty receive substantial research funding from various
different sponsors within the Department of Defense. Research topics include
fault-tolerant reconfigurable computing for space-based applications,
high-performance reconfigurable computing for signal processing and national
security applications, high-speed numeric function generators, high-speed
content-addressable memory realizations, VLSI and mixed-signal system-on-a-chip
design, and FPGA and DSP architectures for military applications.
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