Digital Electronics Design with VHDL
10 credits
Syllabus, Master's level, 1FA326
A revised version of the syllabus is available.
- Code
- 1FA326
- Education cycle
- Second cycle
- Main field(s) of study and in-depth level
- Embedded Systems A1N, Technology A1N
- Grading system
- Fail (U), Pass (3), Pass with credit (4), Pass with distinction (5)
- Finalised by
- The Faculty Board of Science and Technology, 23 June 2011
- Responsible department
- Department of Physics and Astronomy
Entry requirements
120 credits including basic course in digital electronics (especially state machines) and programming.
Learning outcomes
On completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- account for the syntax and behaviour of the VHDL language
- use modern development tools to design complex digital circuits
- simulate and make a synthesis of extensive designs in so called "Field Programmable Gate Array" (FPGA:er).
Content
- Introduction: Overview of different design styles and abstraction methods.
- VHDL: The program language aspects for modelling and specification. The abstraction levels of the VHDL language. Components. Instantiation. Parallel expressions (if, case wait and loops). Functions and Procedures.
- Design tools: From simple VHDL editors to graphical editors, simulators and tools for synthesis of VHDL descriptions for FPGA circuits.
- Laboratory work: Related to basic components that are used for example in so called embedded systems.
- Projects: A relatively extensive project in simulation and synthesis to achieve a non-trivial (industry relevant) design in a FPGA. Final exercise: How completed design blocks (so called IPs) can be used to achieve extensive circuit solutions in FPGAs and how to put together a so-called System On a Programmable Chip where an advanced processor is put together and is tested using the C programming language.
Instruction
Lectures, lab-exercises and a project.
Assessment
Project Work with report and individual review in examination form through a simple VHDL-design.
Other directives
The number of course participant is restricted to 20 persons per course period. Selections: Grades on qualifying courses.