Credits and Contact Hours

3 credits, 43 hours

Course Instructor Name

Dr. Abbas Fairouz

Textbook

Verilog HDL: A Guide to Digital Design and Synthesis, Samir Palnitkar, 2nd Edition

Michael D. Ciletti, Advanced Digital Design with the Verilog HDL

Catalog Description

This course is a study of techniques and processes for the design of digital systems. The focus is on the design of system modules derived from functional and interface specifications. A progression of designs, culminating in the design of a digital central processing unit and its peripheral units, will be used to illustrate both design and test techniques and procedures. This course will use a modern high level Hardware Design Language (HDL) as the main design tool. While implementation at the logic component (gate) level will be considered, the focus will be on system-level design and higher level behavioral modeling.

Prerequisite

CpE-207, CpE-368

Specific Goals for the Course

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Understand the role of HDL in digital design process. (Student outcomes: 1)

Develop behavioral, register transfer, and structural/gate level HDL models of digital systems. (Student outcomes: 1, 2)

Verify/validate HDL-based digital system designs by using simulations through modern EDA software. (Student outcomes: 1, 2, 6)

Synthesize behavioral, register transfer, and structural/gate level HDL models of digital systems to various technologies. (Student outcomes: 1, 2)

Use the state of the art Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools such as Synopsis or Altera Quartus in modeling and simulation of digital systems. (Student outcomes: 1, 2)

Express digital design at multilevel of abstraction in Verilog HDL. (Student outcomes: 1, 2)

Use CAD tool for visualization of logic simulation. (Student outcomes: 2, 6)

Design combination circuits of increasing complexity according to a stated functional behavior. (Student outcomes: 1, 2)

Integrate previously designed components into a large-scale system to meet the specified requirements. (Student outcomes: 1, 2)

Express digital design at System-level languages, such as SystemC.

Topics to Be Covered

Digital design methodology.

Evolution of hardware description languages (HDLs).

Hierarchical modeling concepts.

Data types and operators.

Modules and ports: declaration and connections.

Combinational and sequential circuit design.

Structural, behavioral and RTL modeling of digital systems.

Finite state machines minimization and assignments.

Design implementation technologies.

Design and synthesis of digital logic.

Algorithms and architectures for digital processors.

System-level design languages.