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

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThe 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.
Course description 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.
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
Academic year 2018/19, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  21
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 57 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Coursework %: 100
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
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.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills 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 Megan Inch-Kellingray
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: M.Inch@ed.ac.uk
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