EEL4712 Digital Design (Spring 2018)

Announcements

Midterm 1 will be on Friday, Feb 16 in class. Midterm 2 will be on Friday, March 23. Midterm 3 will be Wed, April 25. There is no final.

Previous Midterms

Catalog Description

Advanced modular logic, design languages, finite state machines and binary logic.

Overview

This course will review basic concepts in digital logic (muxes, decoders, encoders, etc.) and will build upon these concepts to form complex digital circuits consisting of finite state machines, controllers, and datapaths. The course will be lab intensive and will provide realistic case studies to apply concepts learned during lecture. All concepts discussed in lecture will be implemented in VHDL.

Course Information

Lectures


Date Topic Slides/Reading Material
M, January 8 Course Intro Slides
W, January 10 VHDL Intro (guidelines, entity and architecture, basic mux implementation) Tutorial (See 2x1 mux example)
F, January 12 VHDL Intro (if vs. case, priority encoder, structural architectures) Tutorial (read combinational logic and structural description sections)
4x1 mux
See Ch. 6 for priority encoder example.
W, January 17 Lab 1
F, January 19 Arithmetic Operations Add w/ carry examples in different packages:
numeric_std
std_logic_arith with std_logic_unsigned
std_logic_arith

Common Problems:
Signal/variable comparison
M, January 22 Lab 2, Generics, Avoiding Latches, Testbenches
W, January 24 Lab 2, Cont.
F, January 26 Carry-Lookahead Adders Slides
Read Section 5.4
M, January 29 Lab 3, For-generate
W, January 31 Misc. VHDL (configurations, initialization of signals, advanced testbenches, generics, components, vho/vhd, package reference)
F, February 2 Sequential Logic (see tutorial examples)
M, February 5 Synthesis of Sequential Logic (see tutorial examples)
W, February 7 Class Cancelled
F, February 9 Midterm 1 Review
M, Feb 12 Finite State Machines, Lab 4 See tutorial. Direct link.
W, Feb 14 Counters, Integers, Lab 4, Cont. See tutorial. Direct link.
M, Feb 19 FSMD See Controllers+Datapath section of VHDL tutorial.
Fibonacci Calculator FSMD (1-process model)
Fibonacci code and datapath
W, Feb 21 FSMD, FSM+D See Controllers+Datapath section of VHDL tutorial.
F, Feb 23 FSM+D, Cont. See Controllers+Datapath section of VHDL tutorial.

M, Feb 26 Lab 6
W, Feb 28 Lab 6, Cont.
F, Mar 1 Class Cancelled
M, Mar 12 FPGA Architectures FPGA Architecture Slides
Max 10 Overview
W, Mar 14 FPGA Architectures, Cont.
F, Mar 16 Midterm 2 Review
M, Mar 19 MIPS (Arrays, RAM, Register File) Sample RAM Code
Sample Register File Code
W, Mar 21 MIPS (Register File, ALU, Datapath)
F, Mar 23 Midterm 2
M, Mar 26 MIPS (Memory, I/O Ports, Control, R-Type Instructions)
W, Mar 28 MIPS (I-Type Instructions, Load/Store Instructions)
F, Mar 30 MIPS (Load/Store Instructions, Jump Instructions)
M, April 2 MIPS (Branch Instructions, Misc.)
W, April 4 MIPS (MIF Files and assembly code)
F, April 6 Midterm 2 Solution
2-process FSMD
2-process FSMD code
M, April 9 2-process FSMD, Cont.
Buses, Tristates
VHDL Arrays
Bus/Tristate Code
W, April 11 VHDL Arrays
Research Overview
Application case study example:
A performance and energy comparison of FPGAs, GPUs, and multicores for sliding-window applications

Intel Xeon+FPGA study:
Scalable Window Generation for the Intel Broadwell+Arria 10 and High-Bandwidth FPGA Systems

FPGA Virtualization study:
Virtualization Slides
Intermediate fabrics: virtual architectures for circuit portability and fast placement and routing
F, April 13 Metastability, Clock-Domain Crossing Papers
CDC overview
M, April 16 Metastability, Clock-Domain Crossing, Cont.
W, April 18 Pareto Optimality
Design-space exploration
F, April 20 Pareto Optimality
Design-space exploration
M, April 23 Midterm 3 Review

VHDL Resources