Course Number:

Credit Hours:

4

Course Title:

Digital Systems Design with Hardware Description Languages

Course Description:

Covers design, simulation, modeling, synthesis, verification, and implementation of complex digital systems using high-level computer hardware description languages (HDL), beginning with a description of digital system design hierarchy and abstraction. Provides a brief overview of available design tools and simulation programs. Continues with a complete presentation of the standard VHDL hardware description language and how to use this language for design and verification of digital systems at different levels of abstraction. Includes the following topics: CPU design; synthesis of a large design; FPGA implementation of a complete design; and, for materializing this complete design, coding for synthesis, use of verification libraries, and how to program FPGAs and CPLDs. Uses advanced simulation, synthesis, and FPGA programming tools.