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Undergraduate Course: Digital System Design 3 (ELEE09024)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course is a lecture course and is taken by all students taking the third year of electronics and/or electrical engineering degree in Semester 1. It comprises one 22 lecture module.

Digital System Design 3 aims to build on the material presented in the second year and enhance students understanding and design skills of combinational and sequential digital circuit design techniques. To introduce the concepts and techniques for datapath and FSM design.
Course description Introduction to Digital System Design
Logic Synthesis
Deep Sub Micron (DSM) Issues

Datapaths
Binary arithmetic, Number representation and coding
2's complement representation, Floating point representation, ANSI/IEEE Floating Point Standard 754-1985, Binary Coded Decimal (BCD), Grey Code

Adders
Full adder, Ripple-carry adder, Carry-bypass adder, Carry-select adder, Square root carry-select adder, Carry-lookahead adder

Multipliers
Binary multiplication, Array multiplier, Carry-save multiplier, Tree multipliers, Wallace-Tree multiplier

Sequential Circuits
Introduction to sequential circuits
Definition of a sequential circuit, Definition of a synchronous circuit, asynchronous R-S flip-flop, State tables, master-slave J-K flip-flop, D and T type flip-flops, Setup and hold times

Basic Sequential Circuits - Counters

State Machines
Finite State Machines (FSMs), Moore and Mealy machines, State diagrams, ASM charts, Conventions for ASM charts, Synthesis from an ASM chart, Drawing timing diagrams from ASM charts

Reduction of State Tables

Sequential design implementations
Introduction to different implementation styles, Programmable and non-programmable implementations, PLAs and FPGAs, Design of sequential networks using ROMs and PLAs, Design of sequential networks using sequential PLAs
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Digital System Design 2 (ELEE08015)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesMust have understanding and knowledge of: Boolean Algebra, logic gates, Combinational logic design, minimisation of combinational logic (e.g. Karnaugh Maps), basic sequential circuit design.
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 1
Course Start Date 15/09/2014
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 51 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 100% written examination.
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)2:00
Learning Outcomes
1.Understand the concept of synthesis and modern digital circuit design;
2.Understand the need for optimisation;
3.Understand the steps involved in synthesis and identify different types of circuits;
4.Understand design methodologies using current computer aided design tools;
5.Understand digital circuit representation formats including high level hardware description languages such as Verilog-HDL;
6.Understand the general digital circuit structure;
7.Understand the concept of static timing analysis with use of cell delay and wireload models;
8.Understand binary arithmetic, number representation and coding, including 2-s complement and floating-point representations;
9.Understand the basic datapath structures, including adders and multipliers;
10.Design and analyse small synchronous digital circuits which incorporate D, T or JK Flip Flops;
11.Implement small synchronous circuit designs using discrete gates and flip-flops and programmable logic devices;
12.Understand synchronous flip-flops, setup and hold timing constraints;
13.Understand synchronous counters, non-binary synchronous counters, generalised small synchronous design methods;
14.Understand Moore and Mealy machines, sate diagrams, ASM charts; 15.Design synchronous sequence detectors;
16.Understand Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs)and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs).
Reading List
Fundamentals of Logic Design: fourth edition, C. H. Roth, (West Publishing Company) 1992

Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, M.J.S. Smith, (Addison Wesley) 1997, ISBN 0 201 50022 1

Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, J.M. Rabaey, Prentice Hall (1996), ISBN 0 13 1786091

HDL Chip Design: A Practical Guide for Designing, Synthesizing, and Simulating ASICs and FPGAs using VHDL and Verilog, D.J. Smith, (Doone Publications) 1999, ISBN 0 9651934 3 8

The art of digital design, D. Winkel and F. Prosser, (Prentice hall) 1980 Electronic Logic Circuits, J.R. Gibson, (Edward Arnold) 1992

Digital Design (Verilog): An Embedded Systems Approach Using Verilog (26 Oct 2007)by Peter Ashenden (Author)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Special Arrangements None
Keywordsdigital circuits, combinational logic, sequential logic, FSM, finite state machine, datapath, adder,
Contacts
Course organiserDr Alister Hamilton
Tel: (0131 6)50 5597
Email: Alister.Hamilton@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lynn Hughieson
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
Email: Lynn.Hughieson@ed.ac.uk
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