Advanced combinational and sequential electronic system design. Hardware specification, modeling, and simulation using hardware description languages (HDLs) and CAD tools. Design with programmable logic including FPGA's. Applications include complex state machines, microcontrollers, arithmetic circuits, and interface units. Credit can be given for only one of CPEN 311 or EECE 379. [3-3-0]
Course Topics
Combinattional Logic
IC Designs
FPGAs
Sequential Circuits
VHDL Synthesizable
Timing of Synchronous Circuits
Arithmetic Circuits; Number Systems
Datapath Circuits
Asynchronous Circuits
MPS
Pipelining
GPU Arch
Textbook
Steven Brown, Zvonko Vranesic, ―Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design‖, 3nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005
