Introduction to digital systems design | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Introduction to digital systems design (17.E227A)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Computer Engineering and Computer Communications

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Year: 3, Semester: Winter)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Power Software Engineering (Year: 2, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Computer Engineering and Computer Communication
ECTS	6

Knowledge about the basics of digital system design.

Knowledge about the basic techniques for designing and testing digital systems. The acquired knowledge provides the basis for understanding engineering courses which will follow.

Course covers digital systems design, it starts with digital logic basics and real logic families, it continues with combinational logic, sequential networks, finite state machines, memories... During the work with VHDL language, students are learning how to design digital systems in programmable logic. Through the multiple lab examples complexity of the system reaches the level of the elementary Von Neumann processor. Finally examples with processor solving basic computational tasks are accomplished on the simulation and synthesis level.

Lectures, Tutorials. Computer practice. Consultations. Students attend lectures, auditory practice and laboratory practice classes. Each laboratory practice is graded. There is a midterm exam which consists of a test which checks students’ theoretical knowledge and practical tasks on the computer.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Complex exercises	Yes	Yes	5.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Complex exercises	Yes	Yes	5.00
Complex exercises	Yes	Yes	5.00
Practical part of the exam - tasks	No	Yes	35.00
Theoretical part of the exam	No	Yes	15.00
Complex exercises	Yes	Yes	5.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00
Test	Yes	Yes	10.00