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Undergraduate Course: Digital Systems Laboratory (ELEE10023)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Digital System Design and Digital Systems Laboratory 3 (ELEE09035)
It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Digital System Design 3 (ELEE09024)
Co-requisites It is RECOMMENDED that students also take Digital System Design 4 (ELEE10007)
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Purchase of a Daybook
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesStudents should be familiar with digital design using Verilog, and embedded system programming using C.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  33
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) Ongoing academic assessment during lab sessions through a number of checkpoints (100%).
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Data paths and Control paths and number of ways of designing them.
  2. Ability to use and choose between different techniques
  3. Ability to use a commercial digital system development tool suite
  4. Ability to evaluate implementation results
  5. Instruction-set based control path design
Reading List
Digital Design (Verilog): An Embedded Systems Approach using Verilog - Peter Ashenden
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills 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 secretaryMiss Jo Aitkenhead
Tel: (0131 6)50 5532
Email: Jo.Aitkenhead@ed.ac.uk
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