6th sem

Course Title: Software Engineering
Course no: CSC-351 Full Marks: 70+10+20
Credit hours: 3 Pass Marks: 28+4+8
Nature of course: Theory (3 Hrs.) + Lab (3 Hrs.)
Course Synopsis: Discussion on types of software, developing process and
maintaining the software.
Goal: This course introduces concept of software development paradigm and
implementing these in real world.
Course Contents:
Unit 1: 11 Hrs.
1.1 Introduction to Software Engineering: Definition of software, software
engineering. Comparing between other engineering and software engineering.
1.2 System Engineering: Introduction to System, System properties, system and their
environment, system modeling.
1.3 Software Process: Introduction, software process model, process iteration,
software specification, software design and implementation, software validation,
software evolution.
1.4 Project Management: Introduction, management activities, project planning,
project scheduling, risk management.
Unit 2: 12 Hrs.
2.1 Software Requirements: Introduction, Types of requirements, requirements
engineering process: Feasibility study, requirements elicitation and analysis,
requirement validation, requirement management.
2.2 Software Prototyping: Introduction, prototyping in the software process, rapid
prototyping techniques, user interface prototyping.
2.3 Formal Specification: Introduction, formal specification in software process,
interface specification, behavioral specification.
Unit 3: 6 Hrs.
3.1 Architectural Design: Introduction, system structuring, control models, modular
decomposition, domain specific architecture.
3.2 Object Oriented Design: Introduction, Features of object oriented design, object
oriented software engineering.

Unit 4: 16 Hrs.
4.1 Verification & Validation: Introduction, verification and validation planning,
software inspection, cleanroom software development.
4.2 Software Testing: Introduction, types of testing, testing work benches.
4.3 Critical system validation: Introduction, formal methods and critical systems,
reliability validation, safety assurance, security assessment.
4.4 Software Cost Estimation: Introduction, productivity, estimation techniques.
4.5 Software Reengineering: Introduction, source code translation, reverse
engineering.
Laboratory works: Developing the software techniques explained in the course.
Homework
Text Books: Software Engineering, 7th Edition, Ian Sommerville, PEARSON
EDUCATON ASIA
Reference: Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, 6th Edition,
Roger S. Pressman, McGraw Hill International Edition.
Assignment: Assignment should be given from the above units in throughout the
semester.
Computer Usage: No specific
Prerequisite: C, C++, Data Structure, Automata Theory, System Analysis &
Design
Category Content: Science Aspect: 60%
Design Aspect: 40%

Course Title: Complier Designand Construction
Course Synopsis: Analysis of source program. The phases of compiler.
Goal: This course introduces fundamental concept of compiler and its different phases.
Course Contents:
Unit. 1: 6 Hrs.
1.5 Introduction to compiling: Compilers, Analysis of source program, the phases of
compiler, compiler-construction tools.
1.6 A Simple One-Pass Compiler: Syntax Definition, Syntax directed translation,
Parsing, Translator for simple expression, Symbol Table, Abstract Stack
Machines.
Unit 2: 19 Hrs.
2.4 Lexical Analysis: The role of the lexical analyzer, Input buffering, Specification
of tokens, Recognition of tokens, Finite Automata, Regular Expression to an
NFA, Design of a lexical analyzer generator 5 hrs.
2.5 Syntax Analysis: The role of parser, Context free grammars, Writing a grammars,
Top-down parsing, Bottom-up parsing, Operator-preceding parsing, LR parsing,
Ambiguous grammar.
2.6 Syntax Directed Translation: Syntax-directed definition, Syntax tree and its
construction, Evaluation of S-attributed definitions, L-attributed, Top-down
translation, Recursive evaluators.
2.7 Type Checking: Type systems, Specification of a simple type checker, Type
conversions.
Unit 3: 13 Hrs.
3.3 Intermediate Code Generation: Intermediate languages, Declarations,
Assignments Statements, Boolean Expressions, Back patching.
3.4 Code Generator: Issues in design of a code generator, the target machine, Run –
time storage management, Basic blocks and flow graphs, a simple code generator,
Peephole organization, Generating code from dags, Dynamic programming code-
generation algorithm, Code-generator generators.
3.5 Code Optimization: The principal sources of optimization, Optimization of basic
blocks, loops in flow graphs.
Unit 4: 7 Hrs.
4.6 Writing a Compilers: Planning a compiler, Approaches to compiler development,
the compiler development environment, Testing and Maintenance.
4.7 Comparing some compliers: Pascal Complier, C compiler, C++ complier.

Laboratory works:
1 Writing a complier, optimization techniques, comparing the compilers.
2. Construction of Lexical Analyser.
3. Construction of Parser
4. Development of Code Generator
5. Write a code to show the function of symbol table.
6. Implement the parsing techniques.
7. Show the application of different types of grammar.
8. Implement the lexical analyzer generator.
9. Implement the type conversation.
10. The course instructor is allowed to create a group two students.
a. Assign them to write a small compiler.
Text Books: Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools, Pearson Education
Asia.
Reference:
Homework
semester.
Prerequisite: C, C++, Data Structure, Automata Theory
Design Aspect: 75%

Course Title: Web Technologies
Course Synopsis: This course introduces the client server web technology.
Goal: To expose the students with client and server side web programming.
Course Contents:
Unit 1. Introduction: 4 Hrs.
Review of web technology, Review of HTML and JAVA Script
Unit 2. Issues of Web Technology: 6 Hrs.
Architectural issues of web layer, HTTP & FTP Protocols, Tier Technology: 2-Tier,
3-Tier and n-Tier
Unit 3. The Client Tier: 12 Hrs.
Representing content, XML, DTD’s, Schemas, Stylesheets and Transformation: CSS,
XSL/XSLT, SAX, and DOM, Client-side Programming
Unit 4. The Server Tier: 20 Hrs.
Web Server Concept, Creating Dynamic Content, Using Control Flow to control
Dynamic Control Generation, Sessions and State, Error handling, Authentication,
Architecting web application, Using tag libraries, Writing tag libraries
Unit 5. Introduction to Advanced Server Side Issues: 3 Hrs.
Laboratory works: The laboratory should cover all the topics mentioned above.
Text / Reference Books:
Matt J. Crouch, ASP.NET and VB.NET Web Programming, Pearson Education Asia,
2002
Rahul Banerjee, Internetworking Technologies, Prentice-Hall of India Limited, Fourth
Edition, 2000

Course Title: Real Time System
Course no: CSC-354 Full Marks: 90+10
Credit hours: 3 Pass Marks: 2 + 8
Nature of course: Theory (3 Hrs.)
Course Synopsis: This course introduces the real time technology
.
Goal: The main objective of this course is to address issue in scheduling,
resource access control, and communication in the real time system
Unit 1. Introduction 3 Hrs.
Digital control, High-level controls, Signal processing, Real time applications
Unit 2. Hard versus Soft Real-Time Systems 4 Hrs.
Jobs and processors, Release times, Deadlines, and timing constraints, Hard and soft
timing constraints, Hard real-time systems, Soft real-time systems,
Unit 3. Reference Model of Real-Time Systems 4 Hrs.
Processor and resources, Temporal parameters of real-time workload, Periodic task
model, Precedence constraints and data dependency, Other dependencies, Functional
parameters, Resource parameters of jobs and parameters of resources, Scheduling
hierarchy
Unit 4. Approaches to Real-Time Scheduling 4 Hrs.
Clock-driven approach, Weighted round-robin approach, Priority-driven approach,
Dynamic versus static system, Effective release times and deadlines, Optimality of
the EDF and LST algorithms, Nonoptimality of the EDF and LST algorithms,
Challenges in validating timing constraints in priority-driven systems, Off-line versus
on-line scheduling,
Unit 5. Clock-Driven Scheduling 5 Hrs.
Notations and assumptions, Static, Timer-driven scheduler, General structure of
cyclic schedules, Cyclic executives, Improving the average response time of aperiodic
jobs, Scheduling sporadic jobs, Practical considerations and generalization,
Algorithm for constructing static schedules, Pros and cons of clock-driven scheduling
Unit 6. Priority-Driven Scheduling of Periodic Tasks 6 Hrs.
Static assumption, Fixed-priority versus dynamic-priority algorithms, Maximum
schedule utilization, Optimality of the RM and DM algorithms, A schedulability test
for fixed-priority tasks with short response times, schedulability test for fixed-priority
tasks with arbitrary response times, Sufficient schedulability conditions for the RM
and DM algorithms, Practical factor

Unit 7. Scheduling Aperiodic and Sporadic Jobs in Priority-Driven Systems 6 Hrs.
Assumptions and approaches, Deferrable servers, Sporadic servers, Constant
utilization, total bandwidth, and weighted fair-queuing servers, Slack stealing in
deadline-driven systems, Slack stealing in fixed-priority systems, Scheduling of
sporadic jobs, Real-time performance for jobs, with soft timing constraints, Low-level
scheme for integrated scheduling
Unit 8. Resources and Resource Access Control 5 Hrs.
Assumptions on resources and their usage, Effects of resources contention and
resource access control, Nonpreemptive critical sections, Basic priority-inheritance
protocol, Basic priority-ceiling protocol, Stack-based, priority-ceiling (ceiling-
priority) protocol, Use of priority-ceiling protocol in dynamic-priority system,
Preemption-ceiling protocol, Controlling accesses to multiple-unit resources,
Controlling concurrent accesses to data objects,
Unit 9. Multiprocessor Scheduling, Resource Access Control and
Synchronization 5 Hrs.
Model of multiprocessor and distributed systems, Task assignment, Multiprocessor
priority-ceiling protocol, Elements of scheduling algorithms for end-end periodic
tasks, End-to-end tasks in heterogeneous systems, Predictability and validation of
dynamic multiprocessor systems.
Unit 10. Real –Time Communication 6 Hrs.
Model of real-time communication, Priority-based service disciplines for switched
networks, Weighted round-robin service disciplines, Medium access-control
protocols of broadcast networks, Internet and resource reservation protocols, Real-
time protocol, Communication in multi computer systems
Text / Reference Book:
1. Real-Time Systems, Jane W. S. Liu, Pearson Education Asia, 2003

Course Title: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Course Synopsis: This course introduces the problem solving techniques, problem
representation and machine learning.
Goal: The main objective of this course is to provide basic knowledge of Artificial
Intelligence, with acquaintance of different search techniques and AI applications.
Course Contents:
Unit 1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence 4 Hrs.
Artificial Intelligence and related fields, brief history of AI, applications of Artificial
Intelligence, Definition and importance of Knowledge, and Learning.
Unit 2. Problem Solving 6 Hrs.
Problem Definition, Problem as a state space search, Problem formulation, Problem
types, Well-defined problems, Constraint satisfaction problem, Game playing,
Production systems.
Unit 3. Search Techniques 9 Hrs.
Uninformed search techniques- depth first search, breadth first search, depth limit
search, and search strategy comparison, Informed search techniques-hill climbing,
best first search, greedy search, A* search, Adversarial search techniques-minimax
procedure, alpha beta procedure
Unit 4. Knowledge Representation, Inference and Reasoning 12 Hrs.
Formal logic-connectives, truth tables, syntax, semantics, tautology, validity, well-
formed-formula, propositional logic, predicate logic, FOPL, interpretation,
quantification, horn clauses, rules of inference, unification, resolution refutation
system (RRS), answer extraction from RRS, rule based deduction system, Statistical
Reasoning-Probability and Bayes' theorem and causal networks, reasoning in belief
network
Unit 5. Structured Knowledge Representation 4 Hrs.
Representations and Mappings, Approaches to Knowledge Representation, Issues in
Knowledge Representation, Semantic nets, frames, conceptual dependencies and
scripts

Unit 6. Machine Learning 4 Hrs.
Concepts of learning, learning from examples, explanation based learning, learning
by analogy, learning by simulating evolution, learning by training neural nets,
learning by training perceptrons.
Unit 7. Applications of Artificial Intelligence 6 Hrs.
Expert Systems, Neural Network, Natural Language Processing, Machine Vision
Laboratory work: Laboratory exercises should be conducted in either LISP or
PROLOG. Laboratory exercises must cover the fundamental
search techniques, simple question answering, inference and
reasoning.
Text / Reference books:
 E. Rich and Knight, Artificial Intelligence, McGraw Hill.
 D. W. Patterson, Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Prentice Hall.
 P. H. Winston, Artificial Intelligence, Addison Wesley.
 Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, Pearson
 Ivan Bratko, PROLOG Programming for Artificial Intelligence, Addison Wesley.

Course Title: Fundamentals of E-Commerce
Course Synopsis: Discussion on types of commerce, doing business in electronics,
infrastructure of electronic commerce.
Goal: This course introduces basic concept of commerce and discusses the basic needs
of electronic commerce.
Course Contents:
Unit 1: 14 Hrs.
1.7 Introduction to Electronic Commerce: Introduction of commerce, Electronic
commerce framework, electronic commerce and media convergence, the anatomy
of e-commerce application.
1.8 The Network for Electronic Commerce: Need of network, market forces
influencing the I-way, components of I-way, network access equipment, and
global information distribution network.
1.9 The Internet as a Network Infrastructure: Introduction, the Internet terminology,
NSFNET: Architecture and Components, Internet governance: The Internet
Society.
Unit 2: 23 Hrs.
2.8 Network Security & Firewalls: Client-Server network security, security threats in
client-server, firewalls and network security, data & message security, encrypted
documents and electronic mail.
2.9 Electronic Commerce & World Wide Web: Introduction, architectural framework
for electronic commerce, WWW as an architecture, security in the web.
2.10 Consumer Oriented Electronic Commerce: Introduction, consumer oriented
application, mercantile process models, mercantile models from the consumer’s
perspective, mercantile models from the merchant’s perspective.
2.11 Electronic Payment Systems: Introduction, types of electronic payment system,
digital token based electronic payment systems, smart cards and electronic
payment systems, credit cards systems, Threat on electronic payment system.
Unit 3: 8 Hrs.
3.6 Inter-organizational Commerce & Electronic Data Interchange: Introduction, EDI
application in business, EDI: legal, security, and privacy issues, EDI and
electronic commerce.

3.7 The Corporate Digital Library: Introduction, dimensions of electronic commerce
systems, types of digital documents, Issues behind document infrastructure,
corporate data warehouses.
Laboratory works: Developing the small electronic payment system.
Text Books: Frontiers of Electronic Commerce, 5th Edition, Kalkotia and
Whinston, Pearson Education Asia
Homework
semester.
Prerequisite: C, C++, Data Structure, System Analysis & Design
Design Aspect: 40%

Course Title: Society and Ethics in Information Technology
Course no: CSC-357 Full Marks: 90+10
Credit hours: 3 Pass Marks: 36+4
Course Synopsis: General introduction to society, ethics and profession and general
understanding of professional environment.
Goal: This course provides general understandings of the social and ethical issues
related with the practice of a profession taking special reference of IT profession.
Unit 1. Society and Technology 8 Hrs.
Meaning of society and its characteristics, Theories of social change – Socio-cultural
evolution, functional and conflict theory, Concept of technology and technological
change, General impact of technology on society, Impact of computer on society,
Application, security, crimes and ethical issues related with IT
Unit 2. Profession and Ethics 10 Hrs.
Meaning and characteristics of a profession, Define ethics and distinguish between
moral and non-moral action, Discussion on moral dilemma, Discuss ethical theories –
Utilitarianism, universalism, distributive justice and personal liberty, Introduction to
professional society – its registration procedure, code of ethics applicable to IT
profession and disciplinary action
Unit 3. Law, Policy and Institutions 15 Hrs.
Sources of law, Overview of law/policies/institutions affecting practice of IT
profession, Types of business firms and their characteristics – private, partnership and
company, Introduction multinational companies and joint ventures, Define contract,
Essentials of a valid contract, Void and voidable contract, Introduction to tort and
negligence, Introduction to Labor Act and Trade Union Act, Introduction to Nepalese
cyber law and IT policy taking general reference to other countries – US, England,
Japan, India and China
Unit 4. Introduction to Intellectual Property Rights 2 Hrs.
Copy rights, patent, trademarks, industrial design
Unit 5 Case Studies/Group Discussions and Seminars 10 Hrs.
In each unit, related cases will be discussed and group discussions will be held in the
class as well as students will make presentations covering wide areas of society,
ethics and profession.
References: Chitrakar, Roshan and shrestha, Deepanjal (Compilation), A Manual
of Social and Professional Issues in Information Technology, PAI,
Kathmandu, 2005

Johnson, D. G., Computer Ethics, Pearson Education Asia, 2001 ISBN:
81-7808-306-X
Laudon, Kenneth C. and Laudon Jane P., Management Information
Systems, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 1999 ISBN: 81-203-1282-1
Kanter, Jerome, Managing with Information, Prentice Hall of India,
New Delhi, 1998 ISBN: 81-203-1012-8
Patnaik, Srikanta, First Text Book on Information Technology, Dhanpat
Rai & Co., New Delhi, 2001
Govindarajan, M., Natarajan, S., and Senthilkumar, V. S.,
Engineering Ethics, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2004 ISBN: 81-
203-2578-8
Homework
Assignments: Assignments includes preparation for cases, group discussions and
presentations in the class.

Course Title: Automation and Robotics
Course Synopsis: this course has the idea of automation and robotics.
Goal: To provide students with information on how to apply robots and manufacturing
automated systems with the basic principles underlying the design, analysis and
synthesis of robotic systems.
Course Contents:
Robot definition, Major Components, Human arm characteristics, Geometric motion
configuration, Robot Classification, Direct and Indirect Drives, Characteristics of
Robot Performance, Historical development of Robot, Degrees of freedom, Asimov’s
laws of robotics, dynamic stabilization of robots.
Unit 2. Power Sources and Sensors 8 Hrs.
Hydraulic, pneumatic and electric drives, determination of HP of motor and gearing
ratio, variable speed arrangements, path determination, micro machines in robotics,
machine vision, ranging, laser, acoustic, magnetic, fiber optic and tactile sensors.
Unit 3. Manipulators, Actuators, and Grippers 8 Hrs.
Manipulators, Classification, Construction of manipulators, manipulator dynamics
and force control, electronic and pneumatic manipulator control, End effectors, Loads
and Forces, Grippers, design considerations, Robot motion Control, Position Sensing
Unit 4. Kinematic Analysis 10 Hrs.
Manipulator Kinematics, Manipulator Geometry and Degrees of Freedom,
Workspace and Joint Space, Coordinate Transformation, Rotation Matrices and
Transformation, Homogeneous Transformation, Translation Matrices, Orientation
Specification, Rotation Matrices.
Unit 5. Process Control 9 Hrs.
Process Control and Types, On-Off Control Systems, Proportional Control Systems,
Proportional Plus Integral (PI) Control Systems, Three Mode Control (PID) Control
Systems, Process Control Tuning.
Unit 6. Other Issues 4 Hrs.
Robot Safety, Safety Hazards, Safety Measures, Economic Analysis and Installation,
Robot Manufacturing Systems, selection of a robot.

References:
1. Jain K.C. and Aggarwal B.E., Robotics – Principles and Practice, Khanna Publishers
2. Mikell P. Weiss G.M., Nagel R.N., Odraj N.G., Industrial Robotics, McGraw Hill.
3. Ghosh, Control in Robotics and Automation: Sensor Based Integration, Allied
Publishers.
4. Schuler, C.A. and McNamee, W.L. Modern Industrial Electronics,
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill
5. Klafter R.D., Chimielewski T.A., Negin M., Robotic Engineering – An integrated
approach, Prentice Hall of India.

Course Title: Digital System Design
Course Synopsis: This course introduces the concepts of VLSI design and testing
Goal: The course objective is to provide ample knowledge on digital design process
with the VLSI design procedures and to enhance the knowledge of hardware
design applying subsystem design with VHDL and FPGA.
Course Contents:
Unit 1.Introduction 5 Hrs.
Digital Systems and Integration, Electronic Design Automation, IC Manufacturing,
Logic Families, IC Design Techniques, IC characteristics: fan-out, power dissipation,
propagation delay, and noise margin of TTL and CMOS integrated circuit logic
devices
Unit 2.Logic Manipulation 5 Hrs.
DeMorgan's Theorem, Canonical Forms, Minterm and Maxterm, implicant, prime
implicant, K-Maps, Quine-McCluskey Method.
Unit 3. Application Specific Devices 8 Hrs.
PROMs and EPROMs, Programmable Array Logic (PAL), Programmed Logic Array
(PLA), Gate Arrays, Programmable Gate Array, Full Custom Design.
Unit 4.State Machine and Design 7 Hrs.
Mealy and Moore machines, state transition tables and diagrams, algorithmic state
machine charts, Synchronous State Machine Design, Design of Input Forming Logic
and Output Forming Logic of state machine.
Unit 4.VLSI Design 8 Hrs.
Transistor and Layouts, Fabrication Process, Design Rules, Layout design and tools,
Logic Gates, Combinational logic Networks and Design, Sequential Systems and
Design, Subsystem Design, Various Floorplanning Methods, Off-Chip Connections.
Unit 5. Testing 6 Hrs.
Testing and Verification, Testing logic circuits, Combinational gate testing,
Combinational network testing, Sequential Testing, Test vector generation, fault, fault
model and fault detection, SA0, SA1, Design for Testability.

Unit 6.Hardware Description Languages 6 Hrs.
VHDL and its use in programmable logic devices (PLDs) like FPGA
1. Wolf, Wayne, Modern VLSI Design-Systems on Silicon , Third Edition, Pearson
2. Comer, David J. Digital Logic State Machine Design, Third Edition, Oxford
University Press
3. Ashenden, Peter J., The Student's Guide to VHDL, Morgan Kaufman

Course Title: Web Centric Computing
Course no: Csc-361 Full Marks: 70+10+20
Course Synopsis: This course introduces the web data communication.
Goal: To provide the knowledge of Web Centric Computing Using Perl programming.
Course Contents:
Net programming, Introduction to Perl, Parsing rules, Variables and data, Statements
and control structures, Subroutines, packages, and modules, Working with files, Data
manipulation.
Unit 2. Complex Data Structure 4 Hrs.
Accessing packed data structures, References, Complex Structures, Objects, Using
tie.
Unit 3. Networking 5 Hrs.
Obtaining network information, The socket module, Socket communication, Using IO
Socket, Graham Barr’s libnet bundle, Gisle Aas’ LWP Bundle, Application of sytem.
Unit 4. Database Systems 4 Hrs.
Text databases, DBM databases, Database file locking, Using the DBI and Win32
ODBC toolkits, SQL refresher.
Unit 5. Interprocessor Communication and Execution Enhancements 6 Hrs.
Processes, Signals, Pipes, Executing additional processes, Other function calls,
System V IPC, Perl on the command line, Perl environment variables, Perl in Perl,
Threads, Security.
Unit 6. User Interface Tools 4 Hrs.
Processing commands line arguments, Perl’s reporting mechanism, Working with a
terminal, Using Tk.
Unit 7. Developing World Wide Web 6 Hrs.
HTML, Uniform resource locator, Web operation overview, The environment, The
common gateway interface, Smarter web programming, The CGI module, Parsing
HTML, Parsing XML, Debugging and testing CGI applications, Security.

Unit 8. Controlling, Extending and Embedding Perl 5 Hrs.
Warning, The strict Pragma, Other Perl Pragmas, Perl Internals, Perl’s Internal
Structures, Extending Perl, Embedding Perl, Cooperating with other languages.
Unit 9. Debugging, Tuning, Compiling, Documenting, and Distributing 5 Hrs.
Debugging techniques, Using a debugger, Traps for programmers of other languages,
Optimization, Using dump, Using the compiler, Comparing script and executable
speeds, Using the supplied documentation, Writing POD documentation, Converting
POD to other formats, Function support, Perl makefiles.
Laboratory works: Exercises covering all features of above.
Text / Reference book:
1. The Complete Reference: Perl, Martin C. Brown, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing
Company Limited, 2001.

Course Title: Net Centric Computing
Course no: Csc-360 Full Marks: 70+10+20
Course Synopsis: This course explores the concepts of developing web technology.
Goal: To provide the knowledge of Web Centric Computing Using Active Server
programming.
Course Contents:
Behind the scenes: Introduction, benefit and application of ASP; Introduction to IIS:
Features, properties and application of IIS and MMC, Virtual directory properties;
ASP requirements: Need for ASP, Scripting capabilities, Recognizing individuals,
Database access, State maintenance, ASP extensibility.
Unit 2. Intrinsic ASP Objects 6 Hrs.
The response object: ASP objects, Sending text with the response object and
embedded quotes, Using variables, Other response; The request object; The
application and server objects: Threads, Application variables and use, The server
object, Limitation of application variables; The session object.
Unit 3. Writing Server-Side Code 8 Hrs.
Coding using VBScript and JScript, The scripting dictionary object, File access with
ASP, Debugging ASP and error-handling.
Unit 4. Using Components 5 Hrs.
The browser capabilities component: Difference between browser, Components
properties/methods, working and capabilities; Other ASP components; Sending and
receiving E-mail with ASP.
Unit 5. Accessing Databases with ASP and ADO 7 Hrs.
Introduction to relational databases and SQL, Introduction to ADO, Accessing data
with ADO, Controlling transactions in ASP.
Unit 6. ASP Applications 7 Hrs.
Introduction to ASP applications, State maintenance in ASP applications, Controlling
access and monitoring, Planning application, Develop a sample project using ASP.

Unit 7. Advanced ASP 8 Hrs.
Client-side scripting, Building own components, Automating active server pages,
Efficiency and scalability.
Laboratory works: Exercises covering all features of above.
Text / Reference Book: Active Server Pages 3, a Russell Jones, BPB Publications, New Delhi, 2003.

Course Title: Embedded System Programming
Nature of course: Theory (3 Hours) + Lab ( 3 Hrs.)
Course Synopsis: This course explores the system integration and its issues.
Goal: To allow the student to study the design and development process for dedicated
computer systems in relation to the environment in which they operate.
Unit 1. Introduction: 8 Hrs.
Overview of dedicated and automated systems and their specific requirements (robust
design, environmental issues, temporal constraints, technological constraints,
software systems); the product design cycle.
Unit 2.System Specification and Integration: 12 Hrs.
Development of a system specification, including case studies, Evaluation and
justification of the available levels of system integration (custom chipdesign through
to turnkey-systems) and technological choice.
Unit 3.Software Issues: 11 Hrs.
Development environment: compilers, linkers, debuggers, emulators, real time
operating systems and kernels, Designing and implementing code for dedicated
systems
Unit 4.Hardware Issues: 14 Hrs.
Choice of processor: I/O, memory, speed, integration, development facilities,
economics; DSP devices, Interfacing to commonly used peripheral devices,
Backplane Bus standards, Transducers: sensors for measuring physical phenomena,
output devices such as power actuators and motors, Data transformation, signal
conditioning and data conversion. The impact of EMC regulations on design practice.
Laboratory works: The laboratory exercises should cover all the features mentioned
above.
1 S Heath, Embedded System Design, Butterworth-Heinemann 1997, ISBN0-
75063-237-2
2 David E. Simon, An Embedded Software Primer, Pearson Education, 2001

Course Title: Image Processing
Course Synopsis: This course deals with image components.
Goal: To be familiar with processing of the images, recognition of the pattern and their
applications.
Unit 1. Introduction to Digital Image Processing: 4 Hrs.
Digital image representation, Digital image processing: Problems and applications,
Elements of visual perception, Sampling and quantization, relationships between
pixels
Unit 2. Two-dimensional Systems: 5 Hrs.
Fourier transform and Fast Fourier Transform, Other image transforms and their
properties: Cosine transform, Sine transform, Hadamard transform, Haar transform
Unit 3. Image Enhancement and Restoration: 8 Hrs.
Point operations, contrast stretching, clipping and thresholding, digital negative,
intensity level slicing, bit extraction, Histogram modeling: Equalization modification,
specification, Spatial operations: Averaging, directional smoothing, median, filtering
spatial low pass, high pass and band pass filtering, magnification by replication and
interpolation
Unit 4. Image Coding and Compression: 4 Hrs.
Pixel coding: run length, bit plan, Predictive and inter-frame coding
Unit 5. Introduction to Pattern Recognition and Images: 3 Hrs.
Unit 6. Recognition and Classification: 5 Hrs.
Recognition classification, Feature extraction, Models, Division of sample space
Unit 7. Grey Level Features Edges and Lines: 6 Hrs.
Similarity and correlation, Template matching, Edge detection using templates, Edge
detection using gradient models, model fitting, Line detection, problems with feature
detectors
Unit 8. Segmentation: 3 Hrs.
Segmentation by thresholding, Regions for edges, line and curve detection

Unit 9. Frequency Approach and Transform Domain: 3 Hrs.
Unit 10. Advanced Topics: 4 Hrs.
Neural networks and their application to pattern recognition, Hopfield nets, Hamming
nets, perceptron
Laboratory works: Developing programs of above features.
1. K. Castlemann, “Digital Image Processing”, Prentice Hall of India Ltd., 1996.
2. A. K. Jain, “Fundamental of Digital Image Processing”, Prentice Hall of India Pvt.
Ltd., 1995.
3. R. C. Gonzalez and P. Wintz, “Digital Image Processing”, Addison-Wesley
Publishing, 1987.
4. Sing_Tze Bow, M. Dekker, “Pattern Recognition and Image Processing”, 1992
5. M. James, “Pattern Recognition”, BSP professional books, 1987.
6. P. Monique and M. Dekker, “Fundamentals of Pattern Recognition”, 1989.

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