Special themes

Railway History

• Back to the future
• Abermule, Tamworth [Report, Maps, LSD, Notes], Clayton Tunnel
• The Railway Disaster [exercises_v1 / exercises_v2, talking_points]

No satisfactory sources for these documents currently online?

• Train arrival-departure protocol in LSD

The Abstract Definitive Machine

• The Abstract Definitive Machine (Lectures 5 and 7 from the Concurrency series)
  • basic architecture
  • illustrative examples: systolic array + railway station animation + Jugs in the ADM
  • Human and Machine perspectives on the ADM
  • the Authentic ADM
• the am and the telephone animation

Concurrency

• A series of eight lectures provided the main thread for the S4: EM for Concurrent Systems module:
  • These were revised and posted online in the 2007-8 edition of CS405
  • A source stemming directly from the S4 module was archived as a project by Charlie Care in 2005
  • The animation of LSD accounts in the ADM was first illustrated by Mike Slade (cf. the telephone in the am)

Cadence

• Cadence was one of several tools developed by Nick Pope that were used to support practical work in CS405:
  • It was first introduced in 2010-11 and subsequently used in 2011-12
  • some documentation and resources for Cadence were developed in 2010-11
  • supplementary notes were appended to the Lab 2 exercise sheets [2010-11] / [2011-12]