Course Catalog 2008-2009 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Fabio Garzia

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 4, 5 : Wednesday 12 - 14, TB110

Requirements

Compulsory exercise work and written exam

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

The student learns how to to design and implement simple digital circuits using hardware description languages, and gets familiar with the related simulation and synthesis software tools. The student acquires knowledge about hardware implementation techniques related with HDL usage

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Classification of digital systems	Hardware/software partitioning, reconfigurable systems
2.	Hardware implementation technique	Full custom, ASIC and FPGA
3.	RTL design flow
4.	Syntax and properties of VHDL hardware description languages.	Reusability when using hardware description languages.	Module generators and parametrized hardware descriptions.
5.	Properties of SystemC

Evaluation criteria for the course

The grade of the course is based on the exam and the exercise work.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL: Coding for Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability	Pong P. Chu	978-0471720928				English
Book	VHDL Made Easy!	D. Pellerin, D. Taylor	0-13-650763-8		Prentice Hall, 1997.		English
Lecture slides	Course Slides	Fabio Garzia					English

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures Excercises	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	26.01.2009
Modifier	Fabio Garzia