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CSS221 Computer Graphics and 3(2-3-4)
Applications
Prerequisite: None
Representation and manipulation of graphic data.
Representation and transformations of two-dimensional
space, three-dimensional space. Illumination and shading
modes. Visualizing and analyzing numerical data
associated with scientific, business, and/or entertainment
applications. Methods of creating, storing, manipulating,
presenting and animating two and three dimensional
graphical objects. Elements of image processing.
Programming computer graphics with OpenGL or similar
library.
CSS224 Computer Architectures 3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS371 or
Corequisite: Taking ECS371 in the same semester or
consent of Head of School
Computer evolution. Conventional computer architectures.
CPU and ALU structures and design. Instruction sets.
Hardwired and microprogrammed control. Pipelining.
Array and vector processors. Multiprocessor systems.
Memory organizations. Cache memory. I/O organizations.
CSS225 Operating System
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ITS100 or consent
of Head of School
Basic concepts of operating systems. Processes.
Interprocess communication and synchronization. Inputoutput.
File systems. Memory management.
CSS226 Scientific Computing
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of GTS210 or consent
of Head of School
An introduction to elementary numerical analysis and
scientific computation. Topics include conditioning, stability,
interpolation, quadrature, linear and nonlinear equation
solving, least-squares fitting, eigenvalue and eigenvector
computation, optimization, and ordinary differential
equations.
CSS300 Computer Engineering Training 0(0-0-0)
Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of Head of School
Practical training in private sectors or governmental
departments in the field of Computer Engineering not less
than 240 hours during summer vacation of the third year.
Students must submit a report to his/her supervisor
who will decide for the final grade of either satisfactory
(S) or unsatisfactory (U).
CSS321 Theory of Computation
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ITS201 or consent
of Head of School
Automata, computability, and complexity, emphasizing
computability and computational complexity theory.
Regular and context-free languages. Decidable and
undecidable problems, reducibility, completeness theory,
recursive function theory. Finite automata and regular
languages. Push-down automata and context-free
languages. Turing machines and decidable (recursive)
languages.
CSS331 Fundamentals of Data
Communications
Prerequisite: None
3(3-0-6)
An overview of techniques used in data communications
and switched communication networks. Topics include:
protocol architectures; data transmission and transmission
media; signal encoding techniques; data link control
protocols; multiplexing, multiple access and spread
spectrum; switching networks.
CSS332 Microcontrollers and Applications 3(2-3-4)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of ECS371 or consent
of Head of School
Microcontroller and microprocessor architecture. Assembly
language programming. Microcontroller interfacing.
Descriptions of the microcontroller-based system
components: electronics, functions, and interfaces.
System bus. Interrupts. DMA and I/O. Laboratory
practice and experimental studies on topics related to
microcontrollers.
CSS333 Parallel and Distributed
Computing
3(3-0-6)
Prerequisite: Have earned credits of CSS225 or consent
of Head of School
Architectures, algorithms, and languages for parallel and
distributed processing. Pipeline computing; super
computing; multi-processing control; dataflow computing.
Distributed computer systems; distributed file systems;
distributed shared memory.
CSS334 Computer Networks and
Internetworking
Prerequisite: None
3(3-0-6)
An overview of networking and internetworking
technologies. Topics include Open Systems Interconnect
(OSI) reference model, Internet Protocol suite, standards,
design concepts of protocols, routing algorithms, and
applications of networks.
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology
Thammasat University
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