Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Advanced Design of Complex Digital Systems (17.DE515)

Native organizations units: Department of Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (Year: 2, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Electronics
ECTS	10

This couse is a follow-up course of the "Design of Complex Digital Systems" course from the Bachelor studies. The main goal of this course is to introduce the students to the advanced approaches, trends and tools in the field of digital systems design.

Students who successfully complete this course should be able to follow the latest results, understand the latest technical and scientific literature and get involved into research work in this area. Beside theoretical knowledge, students will also gain experience in using contemporary design tools used to develop complex digital systems.

Design and verification at the ESL (Electronic System Level) level. Techniques for the hardware/software codesign. High-Level Synthesis (HLS). Basic HLS steps. Scheduling algorithms. Resource sharing and binding algorithms. HLS tools. HLS for the DSP systems. HLS for the Low Power systems. ASIP (Application Specific Instruction Set Processor) design methodology. Processor description languages. LISA processor description language. Automatic C compiler generation based on the processor model specification. Tools for the ASIP design. Embryonic and evolvable hardware.

Lectures will be performed on an individual basis with each student. Teacher will, in cooperation with each student, select his/her's areas of interest and propose a scientific literature and topic that a student should prepare and present.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
T. Higuchi, Y. Liu, X. Yao	Evolvable Hardware	2010	Springer	English
P. Coussy, A. Morawiec	High-Level Synthesis - From Algorithm to Digital Circuit	2008	Springer	English
B. Bailey, G. Martin, A. Piziali	ESL Design and Verification - A Prescription for Electronic System Level Methodology	2007	Morgan Kaufmann	English
O. Schliebusch, H. Meyr, R. Leupers	Optimized ASIP Synthesis from Architecture Description Language Models	2007	Springer	English
P. Schaumont	A Practical Introduction to Hardware-Software Codesign	2010	Springer	English