Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Design of Complex Digital Systems (17.EM400A)

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

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Godina: 4, Winter)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Godina: 3, Winter)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Godina: 3, Winter)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Godina: 4, Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Electronics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	7

Educational goal:

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.

Educational outcome:

- 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

Course content:

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. High Level Synthesis. Algorithms for alocation, scheduling and binding. Interface synthesis. Contemporary EDA tools for High Level Synthesis.