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In coming years, engineering students will be able to develop software to write codes on emerging technologies.

Visvesvaraya Technology University (VTU), in association with Intel Corporation, on Thursday announced a multicore curriculum revision for its undergraduate courses.

Under this initiative, students will be taught changes in teaching of microprocessors and their programming in undergraduate engineering courses of VTU-affiliated colleges. The revision aims at integrating parallel programming at the UG level to prepare future software developers to write codes on emerging technologies.

Vice-chancellor H Maheshappa said the university revises its curriculum once in four years, taking into consideration the country's changing needs.

Concept-related multicore architecture and parallel programming have been introduced in the curricula of computer science and engineering, he said.

To ensure better institute-industry relationship, VTU has signed MoU with top institutes for research and development, curriculum upgradation, faculty development and to set up state-of-the-art labs and training centres.

Multicore essentially means multiple processing engines within a single chip which allows to achieve the task faster. Multicore curriculum revision is introducing a concept of parallel programme on a multicore hardware platform.