EECE 353: Digital Systems Design

[chip]Sept-Dec, 2011

Instructor: Tor Aamodt

Lecture: Mon. and Wed., 13:00-14:00, MCLD 202
Tutorial: Fri. 13:00-14:00, MCLD 202

WebCT (Vista) Site (contains handouts and discussion board)

This is a course on the design of real digital systems. Digital systems lie at the heart of almost any electronic system including consumer devices, cell-phones, signal processing systems, computers, biomedical devices, etc. In all of these systems, the "intelligence" of the system is implemented in digital logic. In this course we will talk about these digital systems, and will learn how to design them. More specifically, we'll talk about combinational and sequential logic, datapath design, synchronous and asynchronous circuits, and other related topics.

Much of the design we will do in this course is based on the VHDL Hardware Description Language. In class, we will spend some time talking about VHDL. In the labs, we will use software from Altera to convert our VHDL descriptions to hardware, and then implement this hardware on a real chip.

All handouts will be posted to the course WebCT (Vista) site. If you have problems accessing these handouts, please let the instructor know. The WebCT (Vista) site also contains a discussion board, which you can use to ask questions. Announcements will be posted to the discussion board.