Hardware-Description Languages

Fundamentals of digital logic design

• Fundamentals of a hardware description language (SystemVerilog or VHDL)

• Implementation of combinatorial and sequential logic.

• Verification of digital logic by simulation.
• Discussion of the implementaion of digital logic (ASIC vs. PLD)

• PLD tool chain

• Digital design project

• It is understood how digital logic can be implemented as ASIC or by using programmable logic devices.
• The design flow and the tool chain for digital logic design can be described.
• The fundamentals and the structure of hardware description languages (SystemVerilog or VHDL) is understood.
• Hardware description languages can be used to model combinatorial and sequential logic.
• Hardware description languages can be used to simulate and verify digital logic.
• Digital logic can be synthesized using programmable logic devices and the implemented system can be verified.

Lectures, hands-on excercises, lab, homework

Final exam, homework

continual assessment

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• Mehta, Ashok B. (2021): Introduction to SystemVerilog. 1st ed. 2021 Edition. Cham: Springer.

• Spear, Chris; Tumbush, Greg (2014): SystemVerilog for Verification: A Guide to Learning the Testbench Language Features. 3rd ed. 2012 Edition. Place of publication not identified: Springer.

• Harris, Sarah; Harris, David (2013): Digital Design and Computer Architecture. 2. Aufl. Morgan Kaufmann.

• Nisan, Noam; Schocken, Shimon (2005): The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Face-to-face instruction