in coming years engineering students will be able to develop software to write codes on emerging technologiesvisvesvaraya technology university vtu in association with intel corporation on thursday announced a multicore curriculum revision for its undergraduate coursesunder this initiative students will be taught changes in teaching of microprocessors and their programming in undergraduate engineering courses of vtuaffiliated colleges the revision aims at integrating parallel programming at the ug level to prepare future software developers to write codes on emerging technologiesvicechancellor h maheshappa said the university revises its curriculum once in four years taking into consideration the countrys changing needsconceptrelated multicore architecture and parallel programming have been introduced in the curricula of computer science and engineering he saidto ensure better instituteindustry relationship vtu has signed mou with top institutes for research and development curriculum upgradation faculty development and to set up stateoftheart labs and training centresmulticore 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