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EE50230: Advanced digital systems design

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
Credits: 6      [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: EX 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Examination (EX 100%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Description: Aims:
To introduce students to the key elements of digital electronic systems design.
To introduce key concepts in understanding, designing and critically appraising advanced digital systems.
To provide key skills in implementing digital systems design using a hardware description language.

Learning Outcomes:
After successfully completing this unit the student will be able to:
Understand, design and critically appraise digital systems.
Design and validate digital systems.
Demonstrate detailed knowledge of practical digital design techniques and technologies.
Use a range of established and new techniques to design digital systems.

Skills:
Numeracy: Design digital systems (TFA)
Using IT effectively: Simulators and design tools (TFA)
Â鶹´«Ã½ and Analysis: evaluating designs critically (TFA)

Content:
Theory and practice of how to describe and implement combinatorial and sequential digital designs using a hardware description language.
Test digital designs using a simulator, test benches and validation techniques.
Synthesise and test digital designs on a field-programmable gate array.
Understand how to implement a systematic test approach in both combinatorial and sequential digital designs.
How to move data between domains in a digital design that may have different clocks or bus structures.
Programme availability:

EE50230 is Compulsory on the following programmes:

Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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