Hardware description languages (e.g. Verilog), simulation. Overview of FPGA technology, automatic synthesis tools for FPGA. Timing diagrams, delay reduction techniques. Tri-state drivers, buses, handshake protocols, commercial bus examples. Memories, e.g. SRAM and SDRAM. Clock generation, clock skew, use of PLL. Asynchronous systems, arbitration. Metastability, synchronization failure, FIFOs and elastic buffers, empty/full flag synchronization. Serial transmission and reception, clock recovery, framing. PCB technology and chip packages.
The courses of the Computer Science Department are designated with the letters "CS" followed by three decimal digits. The first digit denotes the year of study during which students are expected to enroll in the course; the second digit denotes the area of computer science to which the course belongs.
First Digit
Advised Year of Enrollment
1,2,3,4
First, Second, Third and Fourth year
5,6
Graduate courses
7,8,9
Specialized topics
Second Digit
Computer Science Area
0
Introductory - General
1
Background (Mathematics, Physics)
2
Hardware Systems
3
Networks and Telecommunication
4,5
Software Systems
6
Information Systems
7
Computer Vision and Robotics
8
Algorithms and Theory of Computation
9
Special Projects
The following pages contain tables (one for each course category) summarizing courses offered by the undergraduate studies program of the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete. Courses with code-names beginning with "MATH" or "PHYS" are taught by the Mathematics Department and Physics Department respectively at the University of Crete.