Department of Physics

18207  Advanced digital circuit design   

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/D201/ 

Course Content

•  Review of principles and practices of sequential logic.
• Timing analysis of digital systems, metastability and synchronizers.
• Fixed-point number systems.
• Using design techniques to increase testability and reliability.
• Increasing digital system performance with spatial and temporal parallelism.
• VHDL hardware description language for simulation and synthesis.
• Description of digital building blocks in VHDL.
• Architecture of ARM processors (instructions, symbolic language, programming, machine language).
• Detailed ARM architecture processor design for the basic single-cycle and multi-cycle microarchitectures.
• Performance and cost analysis of key microarchitectures.
• Detailed design of IP cores and communication with host PC and VGA terminal for image data processing applications.
• Using a Zedboard development board and verifying the correct design at the FPGA level