Course detail
Advanced Techniques in Digital Design
FIT-PNDAcad. year: 2017/2018
This course introduces advanced techniques for digital design. It is focused on logic synthesis and verification of complex logic circuits, efficient utilization of hardware and software and modern technology to construct hardware devices. In particular, the following topics will be discussed: Advanced logic synthesis and verification, high-level synthesis, hardware/software codesign, low power design and reconfigurable computing. The mentioned approaches and techniques will be illustrated on the design of application specific systems.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Using modern techniques to design hardware devices.
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Course curriculum
- Syllabus of lectures:
- Introduction: Summary of current approaches to digital design.
- Modern approaches to the logic synthesis of digital circuits, optimization at the logical level and the target technology. Models and methods of synthesis (AIG, BDD,functional equivalence checking).
- Synthesis of circuits from high-level programming languages (circuit representation, process planning, allocation and assignment of resources).
- Functional verification of digital circuits with respect to the coverage of source codes, states, etc. The synergy of logic synthesis and verification. OVM methodology.
- Embedded computer system, design of embedded systems with microcontrollers, specification of requirements for embedded systems.
- The methods to select appropriate target platform for the embedded system, processes to select appropriate key components of the system.
- Typical software architecture of embedded system. Testing, debugging and diagnostics of embedded systems.
- Modern computing technologies, structures and heterogeneous platforms (FPGAs 3D IC, IP-core, hard / soft CPU, DSP etc.).
- Concurrent design of embedded HW / SW systems (models, distribution, estimates, synthesis, integration, optimization).
- Reconfigurable computing - acceleration in hardware with flexibility of software. (reconfiguration, design tools for C / C ++ high-level synthesis etc.).
- The design of embedded systems with respect to the energy consumption (power reduction at various levels, ambient energy sources and their use etc.).
- Acceleration of application-specific time-critical operations (network traffic processing, image processing, etc.).
- Recent trends in technology, logic synthesis and reconfigurable computing.
Syllabus - others, projects and individual work of students:
A project will be assigned to each student.
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Syllabus
- Introduction: Summary of current approaches to digital design.
- Modern approaches to the logic synthesis of digital circuits, optimization at the logical level and the target technology. Models and methods of synthesis (AIG, BDD,functional equivalence checking).
- Synthesis of circuits from high-level programming languages (circuit representation, process planning, allocation and assignment of resources).
- Functional verification of digital circuits with respect to the coverage of source codes, states, etc. The synergy of logic synthesis and verification. OVM methodology.
- Embedded computer system, design of embedded systems with microcontrollers, specification of requirements for embedded systems.
- The methods to select appropriate target platform for the embedded system, processes to select appropriate key components of the system.
- Typical software architecture of embedded system. Testing, debugging and diagnostics of embedded systems.
- Modern computing technologies, structures and heterogeneous platforms (FPGAs 3D IC, IP-core, hard / soft CPU, DSP etc.).
- Concurrent design of embedded HW / SW systems (models, distribution, estimates, synthesis, integration, optimization).
- Reconfigurable computing - acceleration in hardware with flexibility of software. (reconfiguration, design tools for C / C ++ high-level synthesis etc.).
- The design of embedded systems with respect to the energy consumption (power reduction at various levels, ambient energy sources and their use etc.).
- Acceleration of application-specific time-critical operations (network traffic processing, image processing, etc.).
- Recent trends in technology, logic synthesis and reconfigurable computing.