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Postgraduate Course: Digital Systems Laboratory (MSc) (PGEE11117)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaPostgrad (School of Engineering) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe laboratory 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 Purchase of laboratory notebook
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  18
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 12/01/2015
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;
II. Design options in the design of Data paths and Control
paths.
II. Instruction-set based Control path design;
III. Control and Data path integration;
IV. Design capture 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
Coursework %: 100
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Laboratory exercise designed to teach Embedded Digital
System Design, Embedded Processor Programming, Verilog
Hardware Description Language, Data Path design and
Control Path design through the completion of successive
design tasks.
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsEmbedded Digital System Design Embedded Processor Programming Hardware Description Language Verilog
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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