Course
Digital Circuit Design
with VHDL
Professor Dr.-Eng.
Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu
1. Introduction,
design abilities and applications in VHDL – CAD of high-level digital
circuit, design, simulations, testing.
2. Implementation of
complex applications with field programmable gate array (FPGA) and for
application specific integrated circuits (ASIC).
Content
1. Introduction in
VHDL, goal, utility, applications
2. CAD environments
for: design, implementation, simulation, automatic hardware synthesis
3. Entity design,
libraries
4. Sequential states
5. Types
6. Registers and
synchronizations
7. Finite state
machine
8. Particularizations
and applications with FPGA and ASIC - manufacturers specifications
Teaching procedure
2. Example file for
students.
3. Power-Point course.
4. Interactive
discussions with students, questions and replays.
Actuality, skills and
hardware competences received
2. Compacted and
competitive applications in hardware companies.
3. Implementations of
fuzzy processes and neural networks.
4. In the industrial
world, the VHDL experience is well paid.
5. Hardware
competences: design, simulation, testing, implementation of complex high-speed
applications (with FPGA, ASIC)
Utility
• for any company that promotes
own products in hardware applications domain (from home used products to design
the internal structure of microprocessors, military applications)
References
1. V.A. Pedroni, Circuit Design with VHDL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Press, 2004.
2. M. Zwolinski, Digital
System Design with VHDL (2nd Ed.), Prentice Hall, 2004.
3. D.L. Perry, VHDL Programming by Example (4th Ed.),
McGraw-Hill Professional, 2002.
4. P.P. Chu, FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples: Xilinx
Spartan-3 Version, Wiley-Interscience, 2008.
5. A. Popa, F. Ocolisan, G.D.
Andreescu, Computer Added Design of Complex Logical Circuits - VHDL
Applications (in Romanian), Politehnica
University of Timisoara, 2002.
6. XILINX Inc., http://www.xilinx.com.
7. ALTERA Corporation,
http://altera.com.