Objectives
Obtaining an overview of the main steps in the design of circuits and systems as well as receiving basic knowledge in digital chip design using the hardware description language VHDL.
Lecture
- Design of Systems
- Target Architectures for HW/SW Systems
- Allocation, Binding, Scheduling
- Partitioning
- Overview: Software Design (Code Generation, Register Allocation)
- Hardware Design
- Abstraction Levels
- Hardware Description Languages (VHDL, SystemC)
- Synthesis
- Verification
- Debugging
- Test
Exercise
- VHDL
- Design flow for FPGA applications
- Limitations in digital hardware
- Exercises for practical utilization of the newly learned skills