Undergraduate Course: Digital System Design 4 (ELEE10007)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Electronics |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is lecture based and is taken by all students taking the forth year of electronics and/or electrical engineering degree in Semester 2. It comprises one 20 lecture module. The course aims to present the principles of design re-use in the context of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology. The design and selection of soft, firm, and hard IP blocks are considered. Emerging design practices and standards are reviewed. Two target technologies are addressed: deep-submicron ASICs and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed
Digital System Design 3 (ELEE09024)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Students should be familiar with combinational and sequential logic circuit design, understand and be able to design state machines. They should also understand datapaths and be familiar with the associated arithmetic circuits. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
68 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Exam Information |
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Hours:Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 1:30 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of the exercise the students should be able to
1. Understand architectural design and synthesis principles;
2. Understand the concept of Hardware Description Languages (HDLs);
3. Understand the transformation of an algorithm from specification to an RTL (described with a Hardware Description Language such as Verilog-HDL);
4. Understand the technological conditions behind the need for greater design re-use for IC systems;
5. Differentiate between the different types of intellectual property (IP) blocks, their advantages and disadvantages;
6. Evaluate the appropriateness of a particular IP block for a given application;
7. Assess a piece of soft IP using the QIP metric;
8. Assess a piece of soft IP using industrial tools such as DesignChecker;
9. Understand the generation of a Hard IP;
10. Apply the design guidelines for IP block authoring;
11. Understand the effects of DSM technology on the CAD flow for ASIC design;
12. Be familiar with the DSM ASIC design methodology;
13. Be familiar with general HDL coding guidelines for reuse;
14. Be familiar with low power design techniques;
15. Understand high level synthesis techniques for high performance implementations;
16. Understand advanced computer architectures;
17. Understand datapath architectures used for high performance implementations;
18. Understand the design of modern processors with a focus on programable and reconfigurable architectures. |
Assessment Information
| 2 hour Examination |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Reuse Methodology Manual for System-on-a-Chip Designs, P. Bricaud, and M. Keating, (Kluwer) 2003.
It¿s the methodology, stupid!, P. Kurup et al., (Bytek Designs) 1998.
TimingVverification of ASICs, F. Nekoogar, (Prentice Hall) 1999.
Reuse techniques for VLSI Design, R. Seepold and A. Kunzmann, (Kluwer) 1999.
Surviving the SoC Revolution: a guide to platform-based design, H. Chang et al., (Kluwer) 1999.
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Adam Stokes
Tel: (0131 6)50 5611
Email: Adam.Stokes@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk |
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