Catalog Description

Overview of modern digital systems; Systems-on-chip, virtual cores, design reuse and IP’s (soft, firm and hard), ASIC design methodologies. Digital system hierarchy & abstraction levels, Hardware Modeling using HDL, Design optimization and performance criteria, HDL coding for synthesis, Testability of digital systems and High-Level synthesis.

Prerequisite: Graduate Standing.

Textbook

Givanni De Micheli, “Synthesis & Optimization of Digital Circuits,” McGraw Hill.

Zainalabedin Navabi, “VHDL: Analysis and Modeling of Digital Systems”, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 3nd edition, 1997.