Summary: Help the student find a job in the field of Digital Design

(When the student completes the course, he/she will have a bunch of labs and a project work that can be presented in a job interview)

At the end of the course, the student will

1) Have a clear idea about the basic logic elements that will be used to design a digital block. (Digital 101 will be handled during the initial part of the course. ZAck’s slide presentation will be used as a textbook for this purpose.)

2) Have a good idea about design flow methodology used in a chip design process.

3) Learn how to write synthesizable VHDL code for all the basic logic elements.

4) Learn how to validate a design by writing test benches. The test benches will be written using

· Force files

· Simple processes

· Procedure based.

· Procedures and records

5) Learn how to design some very important logic blocks like

· Register Banks

· FIFOs

· Parametrizable Counters

· Serializers/ Deserializers

· Arbiters

· Priority encoders

· And more (As "SYNTHESIZABLE" as they can get!)

6) Learn to use the following VHDL constructs like

· Sequential Statements

· Concurrent Statements

· Generics

· Configurations

· Attributes

· And more

7) Code a State machine in different styles and test them

· Mealy

· Moore

· Mealy/Moore

8) Know the uses of various different VHDL IEEE libraries and function Overloading

9) Gain knowledge on Special Topics like

· Reusable, Parametrizable and synthesizable hardware design

· Procedural Bus functional models – what and why?

· VHDL –93 and Foreign Language Interface

10) Will learn how to build a High speed Serial Engine (as a part of project work).

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