Practical Digital Design

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Synopsis:

Practical Digital Design course presents an overview of the contemporary digital design flow. The course is recommended for undergraduate students, which are more practically oriented. Course is concerned to synchronnous design techniques, basics of VHDL language and implementation technologies FPGA and ASIC. Students will demonstrate practical use of design techniques in the semestral project.

Requirements:

Students are required to complete a semestral project. The project report will be evaluated according to its quality, compliance to standards and the quality of documentation.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Contemporary digital design flow

2. Project management, metrics and estimates

3. Fundamentals of synchronous design

4. Digital circuits implementation technologies - ASICs, FPGAs

5. Design at the algorithm level, decomposition to blocks

6. VHDL language for description of digital circuits

7. Circuit description on the RT level - registers, counters, multiplexers

8. Circuit description on the RT level - arithmetics

9. Circuit description on the RT level - on-chip memories

10. Synthesis from RT level - the use of constraints

11. Verification plan, models of verification

12. Implementation of a testbench

13. Design for testability

14. Spare

Syllabus of tutorials:

Students will get practical experience in the design of digital circuits using EDA tools for FPGAs. Students will also carry out a semestral project and accomplish a short visit in a professional design center.

1. Introduction to subject

2.-3. Introduction and exercises with FPGA EDA tool

4.-6. Design and verification of a simple synchronous circuit

7. -11. Individual work on the semestral project

12. Visit to a professional digital design center

13. Presentation of results

14. Evaluation

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Study materials:

1. Smith M.: Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison Wesley

Longman, Inc. 1997

2. Keating, M., Bricaud, P.: Reuse Methodoly Manualfor System-on-a-Chip

Designs. Kluwer 1999

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Computer Technology- structured studies (compulsory elective course)