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Postgraduate Course: Digital Systems Laboratory (MSc) (PGEE10009)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Postgraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaPostgrad (School of Engineering) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe lab aims to produce students who are capable of developing hardware-software digital systems from high level functional specifications, and prototyping them on to FPGA hardware using a standard hardware description language and software programming language.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  18
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 68 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge and understanding of:

I. Data paths and Control paths and number of ways of designing them;
II. Instruction-set based control path design;
III. Control and data path integration;
IV. Capture the design of hardware-software digital systems in a standard hardware description language.

2. Intellectual:

I. Ability to use and choose between different techniques for digital system design and capture;
II. Ability to evaluate implementation results (e.g. speed, area, power) and correlate them with the corresponding high level design and capture.

3. Practical:

I. Ability to use a commercial digital system development tool suite to develop a hardware-software digital system and prototype them on to FPGA hardware.
Assessment Information
Ongoing academic assessment during lab sessions through a number of checkpoints (100%).
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsEmbedded Digital System Design, Embedded Processor Programming, Verilog, Data path and Control Path
Contacts
Course organiserDr Alister Hamilton
Tel: (0131 6)50 5597
Email: Alister.Hamilton@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk
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