VHDL/Verilog IP cores design,
FPGA/EPLD applications (Xilinx, Altera),
Standard cells ASIC design,
Microcontroller and PC interfacing applications,
EDA software development team leader

HDLs and Applications of Digital Systems

Dan Nicula, professor

term 6: 1C+2L+2L+1P (Col.)

Overview | Course content | Prerequisites
Lab HDLs | Lab micro
Design Project 2007-2009 (romanian)
2006-2007 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 (old versions)
Bibliography | Links

Overview:

This course comes after 2 basic courses in digital electronics: Digital Integrated Circuits and Microprocessors.
The course (1 hour per week) presents Verilog, as a major hardware description language used by the industry.
Besides course, this discipline has alloted 5 hours per week applications:

2 hours - applications of microprocessors;

2 hours - applications of Verilog HDL;

1 hour - design project related to digital core design.

Course content:

Handouts

Introduction - (2 hours)
- What is Verilog?
- Why Verilog?
- Digital IC design: top-down methodology
- Verilog nouns
- Time control
- Small examples
- Test environment
- Verilog vs. VHDL
Verilog - general topics - (6 hours)
- Data set
- Data types
- Operators
- Concurrent statements
- Sequencial statements
- Assignment statements
- Conditional statement
- Case statement
- Loop statement
- Compiler directives
Modelling basic circuits - (4 hours)
- Logic circuits
- Multiplexers
- Coder/Decoder
- D Latch
- D/RS/T/JK Flip-flop
- Synchronous counters
- Finite State Machine
Advanced topics - (2 hours)
- Tasks and Functions
- Memories
- Generating Hardware structures
- Gate Level modelling
- Transistor Level Modelling
- System Tasks and Functions
- User Defined Primitives
- Specify Blocks
- Sptying signal in design hierarchy
- PLI Functions
- VCD Files

Prerequisites:

Digital Integrated Circuits
Microprocessors

Bibliography:

VHDL and Verilog resources
G. Toacse, D. Nicula Electronica digitala. Dispozitive, Circuite, Proiectare (I), Verilog HDL (II) (Digital Electronics. Devices, Circuits, Design (I), Verilog HDL (II)) Editura Tehnica, Bucharest, 2005.
M. Cirstea, A. Dinu, D. Nicula A Practical Guide to VHDL Design Editura tehnica, Bucharest, 2001.
P.J. Ashenden The Designer's Guide to VHDL Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1995
OCP org OpenCoreProtocolSpecification2.1
Micron 512Mb SDRAM Datasheet 512Mb SDRAM simulation model