Digital electronic systems design

Systems in the integrated circuit. Technology and circuit entities.  Design flowchart of digital electronic systems. VHDL (Very High-Speed Integrated Circuits Description Language) systems design.  VHDL data types and RTL (Register Transfer Level)  models. VHDL components, subprograms and packages. Communication interfaces and buses. Interfaces. Embedded IP (Intellectual Property) cores: processors, memories, communication units. Applications of soft processor cores in programmable devices.

Hardware/Software co-design and system modeling using high-level languages:  SystemC, SpecC, UML. Feasibility analysis and systems partitioning to hardware and software. Optimization of hardware and software system parts.

Testing of digital electronic systems. Fault modelling, fault simulation and automatic test pattern generation. Circuit design for boundary and built-in test. Circuit optimization exploiting testing.

To present state-of-the-art research and development activity in the design of the complex digital electronic systems.

Lectures and tutorials.