EE6213 – Advanced Digital Systems                       Winter Term 2012

 

Methods and tools for the design of FPGA-based digital circuits with focus on large-scale systems , i.e. digital signal and arithmetic processors, microcomputers. VLSI design process, standards, constraints, implementation, technology-dependent optimization, simulation, testing, and verification. Multi-FPGA systems. FPGA-based peripheral devices. One or more design projects.

            3ch (3C 3*L)

 

INSTRUCTOR:                    Yevgen Biletskiy                    e-mail: biletski NA unb.ca

                                                Office:  GWD115                   phone: 447-3495                   

 

LECTURES:                         TTh 10:00 – 11:20 AM           H135

LABS:                                    T 2:30 – 5:20 PM                    H114/115

 

TEXTBOOK (optional):

Wayne Wolf "FPGA-Based System Design", Pearson Education Inc., 2004, ISBN 0-13-142461-0.           

 

Also some VLSI design books are available in the library (reserve):

Wolf “Modern VLSI Design”

Ciletti “Modeling, Synthesis, and Rapid Prototyping with the Verilog HDL”

Arnold “Verilog Digital Computer Design”

Smith, Franzon “Verilog Styles for Synthesis of Digital Systems”

 

Other relevant books (stack):

Mano “Digital Design” / “Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals”

Brown, Vranesic “Fundamentals of Digital Logic”

 

XILINX (lab&project software): http://www.xilinx.com/

Digilent (Spartan3&periferial): https://digilent.us

 

GRADING:  Assignments/Labs-20%     Test1-25%     Test2-25%     Project-30%

 

Assignments, Lab Requirements, Project Requirements - to be posted on Blackboard

                    

PROPOSED SCHEDULE:

 

 

WEEK

 

 

TOPICS

 

READINGS

1-2

Introduction to FPGA-Based Systems and VLSI Technology

Logic Design Process

Ch.1-3

3

Hardware Design Languages, Introduction to Verilog

Behavioral/Dataflow and Hierarchical/Structural Descriptions

Ch. 4

4

Design of Combinational Systems

Ch. 4

5-6

Design of Sequential Systems

Project begins

Ch. 5

7-8

Datapath-Controller Architectures

Processors, Memory, Multipliers

Ch. 6

9-10

Design of Large-Scale Systems

FPGA-based Peripheral Devices

Ch. 7

11-12

End of Project, Presentations

 

13

Review

 

 

Note that this schedule is not written in stone!  Topics may shift slightly depending on class progress.

 

Note that it is student’s responsibility to attend classes in order to obtain any information presented and/or announced in class.

 

 

General Regulations on Conduct

Part of the UNB's Mission is to provide an environment conducive to the development of the whole person.  All members of the University community - staff, faculty, students and administrators - have the right to work and/or study in an environment which affords them respect and dignity, and is free from danger, discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and behaviour which is destructive, disruptive, or unlawful.

 

PLAGIARISM

 

Plagiarism includes:

1.            quoting verbatim or almost verbatim from a source (such as copyrighted material, notes, letters, business entries, computer materials, etc.) without acknowledgment;

2.            adopting someone else’s line of thought, argument, arrangement, or supporting evidence (such as, for example, statistics, bibliographies, etc.) without indicating such dependence;

3.            submitting someone else’s work, in whatever form (film, workbook, artwork, computer materials, etc.) without acknowledgment;

4.            knowingly representing as one’s own work any idea of another.

 

NOTE:  In courses which include group work, the instructor must define and warn against plagiarism in group work.  Unless an act of plagiarism is identified clearly with an individual student or students, a penalty may be imposed on all members of the group.

 

Penalties for Deliberate Plagiarism

 

In a case of deliberate plagiarism, the penalties are:

 

First Offence:  If the student does not appeal, or if, on appeal, the Committee upholds the instructor’s decision:

1.            A notation will be placed on the student’s transcript of academic record concerning the academic offence.  The length of time the notation appears on the student’s transcript of academic record is to be decided when the penalty is imposed and will depend on the severity of the offence.

2.            The student may be required to submit a satisfactory and genuine piece of work to replace the one involving plagiarism.  If the assignment is not resubmitted or is unsatisfactory, the student will receive a grade of F (zero) in the course.  NOTE:  If this penalty is assessed, the period of time allowed for the submission of the work will be determined by the Registrar in consultation with the faculty member making the charge, and, where appropriate, the Committee.

3.            The student will receive a grade of F (zero) on the piece of work and, depending on the severity of the offence, may receive a grade of F for the course.

4.            Other penalties as outlined in penalties for Other Academic Offences may be imposed.

 

Subsequent Offence:  In cases where the Committee considers that the student has plagiarized again:

1.            The student will receive a grade of F in the course and a notation of the academic offence will appear on the student’s transcript of record.  The length of time the notation appears on the student’s transcript of academic record is to be decided when the penalty is imposed.

2.            Other penalties as outlined in penalties for Other Academic Offence may be imposed.

 

For further information on procedures for dealing with cases of plagiarism, students should refer to the regulations found in the Undergraduate Calendar.

 

 

DEFERRED EXAMS

 

University regulations on deferred exams are described in Section V.C of the current on-line Undergraduate Calendar.

All deferred exams in courses offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are scheduled to be written on the fourth day of classes in the following term.  There are no exceptions.