13M034PKH - Advanced Communication Hardware Programming

Course specification
Course title		Advanced Communication Hardware Programming
Acronym		13M034PKH
Study programme		Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module
Type of study		master academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)		professor PhD Zoran Čiča professor PhD Aleksandra Smiljanić
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		professor PhD Zoran Čiča
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)		professor PhD Zoran Čiča
ESPB		6.0	Status	elective
Condition		None
The goal		Goal of this course is to introduce advanced methods for communication functionalities design in communication devices. Students will use VHDL and Verilog programming languages to design advanced communication functions.
The outcome		After finishing the course, students will be capable to implement on hardware complex communication functionalities.
Contents
Contents of lectures		Analysis of programmable chips use cases in telecommunications. Parallelization and pipeline techniques for achieving high communication throughput. In this course, students will learn the latest software platforms for programmable chip design, simulation and programming.
Contents of exercises		Precepts where students will learn to design and simulate complex communication functionalities.
Literature
Z. Čiča, Communication Hardware Programming, Akademska misao, 2017. (in Serbian) S. Lee, Advanced Digital Logic Design using VHDL, State Machines, and Synthesis for FPGA, Cengage Learning, 2005. (Original title) M.D. Ciletti, Advanced Digital Design with the Verilog HDL, Pearson Education Dorling Kindersley, 2017. (Original title) D.L.Perry: VHDL Programming by Example, McGraw-Hill, 2002. (Original title) V. A. Pedroni, Circuit Design with VHDL, The MIT Press, 2004. (Original title)
Number of hours per week during the semester/trimester/year
Lectures	Exercises	OTC	Study and Research	Other classes
3	1	1
Methods of teaching		During precepts, two or three students in team are working on a project. Each team submits a report, the report is presented and defended by the team.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures			Test paper	30
Practical lessons		30	Oral examination
Projects		40
Colloquia
Seminars