Acquiring knowledge in the field of architecture of the contemporary microprocessors, design of contemporary microprocessors and other complex systems based on the given specification, the use of advanced possibilities of the VHDL language for description of complex digital systems. Hardware design based on usage of contemporary EDA tools.

- ability to design contemporary microprocessor or some other complex digital system using VHDL language based on the given specification - ability to use RTL design methodology and contemporary design tools for hardware synthesis

VHDL language for digital system description. Advanced possibilities of the VHDL language. Subprogrammes, procedures, functions. Packages and their use. Alias commands. Generics. Components and configurations. Generate commands. Attributes and groups. Systematic approach in the complex digital system design. Data path and control path. Pipelined and parallel processing. Structure of modern microprocessor. ILP processor architecture. Processors with pipelined processing system. WLIV processors. Superscalar processors.

Lectures. Computer labs. Laboratory exercises. Consultations.