Course Catalog 2006-2007

TKT-1216 DIGITAL DESIGN II, 5 cr
Digital Design II

Courses persons responsible
Claudio Brunelli

Lecturers
Claudio Brunelli

Language of Instruction
Lectures and slides are in English

Implementations
Person responsible: Claudio Brunelli
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Lecture - - - 2 h/week 2 h/week -
Exercise - - - 1 h/week 1 h/week -
Exam  
(Timetable for academic year 2006-2007)

Objectives
The student learns how to to design and implement simple digital cicuits using hardware description languages, and gets familiar with the related simulation and synthesis software tools.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Syntax and properties of VHDL and Verilog hardware description languages.  Design flows: from VHDL model to ASIC/FPGA implementation.    
2. General-purpose and application specific hardware description languages.       
3. Module generators and parametrized hardware descriptions.       
4. Reusability when using hardware description languages.       
5. Logic synthesis       

Requirements for completing the course
exercises and written exam

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • The grade of the course is based on the exam.

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Study material
    Type Name Auhor ISBN URL Edition, availability... Exam material Language
    Book VHDL Made Easy! D. Pellerin, D. Taylor 0-13-650763-8   Prentice Hall, 1997. Yes  English 

    Prerequisites
    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Additional information about prerequisites
    Basic understanding of how to design simple state machines and hierarchical systems are needed as previous knowledge for this course.

    Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc

  • Estimate as a percentage of the implementation of the course

    • - Contact teaching: 80 %
    - Distance learning: 0 %
    - Proportion of a student's independent study: 20 %

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 24
    Exercises 68

    Study materials Hours
    study material 21

    Other scaledHours
    10
    Total sum 123

    Correspondence of content
    8404129 Hardware Description Languages

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    Last modified 15.01.2007
    Modified byClaudio Brunelli