Undergraduate Course: Digital Systems Laboratory 3 (ELEE09018)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 9 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The aim of this lab course is to produce students who are
capable of developing synchronous digital circuits from high
level functional specifications and prototyping them on to
FPGA hardware using a standard hardware description
language. |
| Course description |
Week 2: Hello world, Hello lots of worlds & Hello synchronous world
Week 3: Shifting the world & Shifting many worlds
Week 4: Counting the world & Timing the world
Week 5: Decoding the world & Timing the world in decimal
Week 6: Colour the world
Week 7: World of state machines & assessment
Week 8: World of linked state machines
Week 9: SPI communication & assessment
Week 10: Snake game
Week 11: Assessment
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Knowledge and understanding of the basics of combinational
and synchronous digital circuits |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Understand combinatorial and sequential circuits and number of ways of designing them.
- Implement basic and linked state machines.
- Appreciate the importance of modular design and reuse.
- Familiarised with the development flow of FPGA programming.
- Master a hardware description language Verilog.
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Reading List
Digital Design, An Embedded Systems Approach Using Verilog
By Peter J Ashenden, Morgan Kaufmann, 2007, ISBN-13: 978-
0123695277 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Digital Circuits,Sequential and combinatorial circuits,synchronous circuits and Verilog |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jiabin Jia
Tel: (0131 6)51 3568
Email: Jiabin.Jia@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Megan Inch-Kellingray
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: M.Inch@ed.ac.uk |
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