Postgraduate Course: Digital Systems Laboratory (MSc) (PGEE11117)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The 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.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Purchase of laboratory notebook |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Data paths and Control paths and number of ways of designing them.
- Ability to use and choose between different techniques
- Ability to use a commercial digital system development tool suite
- Ability to evaluate implementation results
- Instruction-set based control path design
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Embedded Digital System Design Embedded Processor Programming Hardware Description Language Verilog |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Alister Hamilton
Tel: (0131 6)50 5597
Email: Alister.Hamilton@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Megan Inch-Kellingray
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: M.Inch@ed.ac.uk |
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