19E044DVS - Digital VLSI Systems

Course specification
Course title		Digital VLSI Systems
Acronym		19E044DVS
Study programme		Electrical Engineering and Computing
Module		Electronics and Digital Systems
Type of study		bachelor academic studies
Lecturer (for classes)		asst. professor PhD Jelena Popović Božović asst. professor PhD Dragomir El Mezeni
Lecturer/Associate (for practice)		asst. professor PhD Jelena Popović Božović asst. professor PhD Dragomir El Mezeni
Lecturer/Associate (for OTC)		asst. professor PhD Jelena Popović Božović
ESPB		6.0	Status	elective
Condition		VLSI System Design
The goal		To give students deeper knowledge of the digital VLSI system Front-end and Back-end design. Provide the students with the ability to design, implement and test digital VLSI systems using ASIC design tools. To give students the knowledge of low power integrated circuits design.
The outcome		Ability to design, simulate, implement and test a digital system using ASIC design tools.
Contents
URL to the subject page		http://tnt.etf.rs/~ms1dvs/
Contents of lectures		Front-end design: SoC design, methodology, IP cores, System Level Design Languages. Hardware/software co-desgin. Platform-Based Design, processor cores, memories, buses, IP blocks integration. System in Package. Logic and High Level Synthesis. Back-end design: floorplanning, goals, restrictions. Design of arithmetic circuits in VLSI systems. Low power integrated circuits design.
Contents of exercises		FPGA implementation of a complex digital VLSI system or an ASIC layot design
Literature
Notes from the lectures are available on the web page of the course S. Sjoholm, L. Lindh, "VHDL for Designers", Prentice Hall, 1997. (Original title) P.P. Chu, "Embedded SoPC Design with Nios II Processor and VHDL Examples", Wiley, 2011. (Original title) R. Sass, A. G. Schmidt, "Embedded Systems Design with Platform FPGAs: Principles and Practices", Morgan Kaufmann, 2010 (Original title) P.R. Schaumont, "A Practical Introduction to Hardware/Software Codesign", 2nd Ed, Springer, 2012 (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		Lectures - Power Point presentations. Practices and LAB - individual student's work on the projects.
Knowledge score (maximum points 100)
Pre obligations		Points	Final exam	Points
Activites during lectures		0	Test paper	30
Practical lessons		20	Oral examination	0
Projects		50
Colloquia		0
Seminars		0