Computer Aided Digital System Design

 

Course Description

This course covers the complex digital system design by means of commercial design automation hardware description languages and tools. Various modelling levels and approaches to digital system design are considered based on complex digital components. The course covers ASIC/FPGA design flow with emphasis on FPGA design flow.

Course References

  1. Volnei A. Pedroni, “Circuit Design with  VHDL”, Third Edition, MIT Press, 2020.

  2. Vivado Tutorial – Xilinx.

 

Course Evaluation

  • Homework & projects  30% <No delivery= -1/2 grade>
  • Quiz   10% <No delivery= -1/2 grade>
  • Final Project  10%
  • Final Exam  50%

 

Course Outline

Session

 Subject

Reference
1 Fundamental Concepts Chapter 1 from [1]
2 Fundamental Concepts Chapter 1 from [1]
3 Data types and operations Chapter 2 of [1]
4 Data types and operations Chapter 2 of [1]
5 Vivado Toolbox/FPGA  [2]
6 Vivado Toolbox/FPGA  [2]
7 Sequential Statements Chapter 3 of [1]
8 Sequential Statements Chapter 3 of [1]
9 Composite Data Types Chapter 4 from [1]
10 Composite Data Types Chapter 4 from [1]
11 Testbench Chapter 18 of [1]
12 Modeling Constructs Chapter 5 of [1]
13 Modeling Constructs Chapter 5 of [1]
14 Sub-programs and Packages Chapters 6 and 7 of [1]
15 Sub-programs and Packages Chapters 6 and 7 of [1]
16 VHDL Miscellaneous items Chapters 8-15 from [1]
17 VHDL Miscellaneous items Chapters 8-15 from [1]
18 VHDL Miscellaneous items  Chapters 8-15 from [1]
19 File operation Chapter 16 of [1]
20 File-based testbench Chapter 16 of [1]
21 State machine design
22 Pipelined integer unit design
23 Design for Synthesis Chapter 21 from [1]
24 Design for Synthesis Chapter 21 from [1]
25 FPGA Implementation-Basics
26 FPGA Implementation-Design flow
27 FPGA Implementation-Acceleration
28 FPGA Implementation-Reconfigurability
29 FPGA Implementation-HLS
30 ASIC Design
31 ASIC Design
32 ASIC Design

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