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SMD098 Computation Structures 6.0 ECTS credits | |
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TIMEPERIOD: Quarter 2 LANGUAGE:Swedish EXAMINER Per Lindgren Univ lekt PREREQUISITES SMD011/SMD012/SMD038/SMD109 Imperative programming, SMD033/SMD069 Digital Design. COURSE AIM The course is designed to give the student an understanding of larger, functionally complex digital systems, together with foundational competence in methods for their design and implementation, especially toward VLSI technologies. Subgoals: - to give the student competence in the design of synchronous digital structures, given a problem description at a high level of abstraction. - to familiarize the student with modern VHDL based design tools. Designs that are created by the students will be tested in real hardware by the use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA). - to acquaint the student to a number of different VLSI-based implementation paradigms and technologies, their relative possibilities and limitations, when to choose which, and how the design process is modified to accomodate those choices. - to give an introduction to the physical properties of digital electronics, and how these must already be taken into account during the earliest phases of digital design: speed, size, power, synchronization with the environment, etc. CONTENTS Architecture and Block Level Design: Structured design methodology. Register transfer level (RTL), event-driven and cycle simulation. Synchronization methods in larger designs. The flip-flop, the latch and two-phase clocking, parallelism, pipelining, multicycling. Races and skew. Design hierarchy. Hardware description languages, VHDL. Logic Synthesis: Functional descriptions of combinational networks. Tools for two-level and multi-level logic minimization. Mapping to implementation library. Classical state machine languages. Clock frequency, static timing analysis, critical paths. Interface to the environment: handshaking, standard protocols; standard busses. Difficulties caused by asynchronous interfaces and high-speed digital input signals. TEACHING Instruction consists of lectures and compulsory laboratories. EXAMINATION Written exam. Final course grade based on both the written examination and the laboratiories: quantitative grade. COURSE GRADE SCALE: U,3,4,5 ITEMS/CREDITS | |
| Laboratory work | 3.00ECTS |
| Written exam | 3.00ECTS |
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COURSE LITERATURE To be determined. REMARKS SMD075 is replaced by this course. Further information: International Office |
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