COIT 20246 Assignment Submission : Electronic

COIT 20246 ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION
Due date: Thursday Week 11 (2PM AEST)
Part: Written Assessment
Weighting: 30% of total assessment.
Submission: Electronic (see course website for details)
Instructions
It will be necessary to use literature/online resources to complete this
assignment, please ensure you cite and reference any such materials using
the Harvard format.
DO NOT copy content directly from either the text or Internet resources: this
assignment is to be in your own words. You will lose marks if you do not
use your own words!
Please complete your assignment using this submission template file,
inserting your responses where indicated.
DO NOT delete the marking criteria page – changes are permitted to the
formatting of other pages including the headers and footers.
Please fill in the following details:
Student Name
Student Number

Tasks
There are ten (10) tasks, one for each week: the tasks are detailed
below. There is a table to complete for each task. Please fill in the
information required. An example of a completed task is below.
Note the first response is good – so aim for something like this.
The second response is not acceptable, so if you submit anything
like it, you won’t pass the assignment! The reasons? Poor
resource selection (Wikipedia), no Harvard reference and a block
cut and paste from the site (no citation, no original content).
Example
Task Find two resources that explain aspects of IT Service
Management.
(Good
Respons
e)
Title and Reference:
COBIT versus ITIL
Ibaraki, S 2014, online, COBIT versus ITIL, viewed 29/01/2015,
<http://blogs.technet.com/b/cdnitmanagers/archive/2014/04/06/cobit-
versus-itil.aspx>.
Summary:
This resource is a blog entry discussing the differences between
CoBIT and ITIL. I chose this resource as there is a lot of confusion
about the way in which ITSM is applied and the distinction between
the CoBIT and ITIL implementations is frequently unclear. Ibaraki
explains that CoBIT provides the governance and metric structures
while ITIL delivers on the actual mechanics and “how-to” processes.
The author makes an interesting observation that it is wrong to
simplify COBIT as providing the ‘why’ and ITIL providing the ‘how’
because both ITSM mechanisms have considerable overlap and
both need to be used at the same time. I found this article very
useful in explaining the differences and similarities between these
two aspects of ITSM.
(Bad
Respons
e)
Title and Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_service_management
Summary:
This pages talks about ITSM. It says that IT service
management (ITSM) refers to the entirety of activities – directed
by policies, organized and structured in processes and
supporting procedures – that are performed by an organization or
part of an organization to plan, deliver, operate and control IT
services offered to customers. It is thus concerned with the
implementation of quality IT services that meet the needs of
customers, and is performed by the IT service provider through an
appropriate mix of people, process and information technology.

Note: Each resource summary should be a maximum of 300 words.
Week 1
Task Significant advances in very large-scale integration (VLSI) circuit
technologies have enabled the implementation of complete
computing systems on a single chip. Find and summarise ONE
resource (within the last two years) that describes the use of VLSI
technology.
Summ
ary
Title and Reference:
Showcasing The Compounds At VLSI
https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/105341/
Showcasing_The_Compounds_At_VLSI/feature
Compound Semiconductor. (2019). Showcasing the compounds at
VLSI - News. [online] Available at:
https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/105341/Showcasing_T
he_Compounds_At_VLSI/feature [Accessed 23 Dec. 2019].
Summary:
In this study the author demonstrates the VLSI integration. The
study discusses that researchers are engaged in including the
large scale integration in order to fulfil the demand of the market.
The resource selected to understand the use of VLSI in the two
important domains. The first one is VLSI Front End and the next
one if VLSI Back end.
The study discusses the use of VLSI. The flow of front-end is liable
to find out the solution to any specific opportunity or problem and
transform that to RTL circuit description. PLD like FPGA and CPLD
are utilized in the front-end VLSI. Apart from that the Hardware
Description Language such as Verilog and VHDL are utilized for
reconfiguring the systems for particular needed functionality. The
CPLDs and FPGAs are the re-programmable devices having
distinct internal form of architecture. On the other hand, the
process of back-end is liable for the physical deployment of circuit
within the silica chip. This is entirely the distinct approach utilized
for Integrated Circuit Design. Here, the synthesizable HDL codes
are also known as RTL description or CMOS technology. This is
utilized for physical IC design, the back-end designs are preferred
for the place where large amount or ASICs are needed.
The study was helpful as it highlights how various challenges and
demands are fulfilled with the continuous process of VLSI. Thus
the size of the circuit can be reduced, the cost of the devices can
be reduced, the operation speed in the circuits can be raised and
there is less consumption of power.
Week 2
Task Real-time operating systems are computer systems that

guarantee a certain capability within a specified time
constraint. Find and summarise ONE resource that
describes the benefits of real-time operating systems for
the telecommunication industry.
Summary Title and Reference:
Real-time operating systems for wearable devices in the
IoT
https://www.microcontrollertips.com/real-time-operating-
systems-for-wearable-devices-in-the-iot/
Teschler, L. (2019). Real-time operating systems for
wearable devices in the IoT. [online]
Microcontrollertips.com. Available at:
https://www.microcontrollertips.com/real-time-operating-
systems-for-wearable-devices-in-the-iot/ [Accessed 18
Dec. 2019].
Summary:
The article evaluates the five primary features of Real-Time
Operating system.
The piece is selected to understand how complex systems
can be effectively managed. For this ideas must be
grasped from every corners. At this place the real-time
operating system comes into play. This helps in
possessing of every inter-lined operations and make that
simple to monitor and then initialize those that are needed.
The article helps in understanding various benefits of Real-
Time Operating System at telecommunication industry.
Firstly, there is the task scheduling. Here, the tasks are
called as there is the necessity to assure effective flow of
program and responding to the event. Next, there is
multitasking where the scheduling of task provides the
notion to execute various amount of activities at the same
time. Next, the deterministic behaviors are there where the
interrupts and events are controlled under specific time.
Then, there are shorter ISRs that enables more
deterministic kind of interrupt behaviors. Next, there is the
inter-task communication. This is useful to manage the
sharing of hardware resources, memory and data among
numerous activities. Further, there is the defined usage of
stack. Here, every activity is been allocated for defined
space of stack and enabling the usage of predictable
memory. Lastly, there is system management that permits
to concentrate on developing application instead of
resource management.
The resource is helpful to totally investigate the process