EE4143/5143 Design of Digital Circuits
Course
Description
This
course aims to convey knowledge about digital circuit design in state of the
art CMOS technologies and programmable devices like FPGAs. Emphasis is on the
circuit design, optimization, and test of very high speed, high density or low
power circuits for use in applications such as micro-processors, signal and
multimedia processors, memory and periphery. Special attention is devoted to
behavioral and structural design concepts, hardware description and design
tools. VHDL language, data types, objects, operators, control statements,
concurrent statements, functions, and procedures. VHDL modeling techniques,
algorithmic, RTL, and gate level designs will be discussed. Introduction to
very large scale integration technology and design of CMOS integrated circuits
will be provided. Emphasis in this course is on virtual prototyping, circuit
design, design synthesis, optimization, verification, and testing. This will
reflected in both the lectures and the preferred projects.
Digital
Circuits Simulation and Fabrication Sites
Spice manual
International Technology Roadmap for
Semiconductors
"How chips are made" - from Intel Education