ELE 2801 - Bridge Digital Design and Procedural Programming

• Design combinational logic circuits using VHDL and test on a programmable logic device (FPGA)
• Design storage elements (Flip-flops, Latches), ALU, counters, registers, tristate devices, multiplexers, and bus using VHDL and test on a programmable logic device (FPGA)
• Design synchronous sequential circuits using state diagrams and/or ASM using VHDL and test on a programmable logic device (FPGA)
• Design VHDL model of a digital system and test on a programmable logic device (FPGA)
• Use commercially available digital-design software tools and evaluation boards to design, simulate, and implement design circuits
• Use structured programming techniques in C
• Design and write software to solve engineering problems
• Document the software solution for an engineering problem
• Explain concepts and terminology related to processor architecture
• Describe the relationship between software and hardware
• Use Integrated Development Environment tools for software development and debugging
• Utilize library functions and algorithms
• Recognize and employ good software practices

• College Algebra I
• Number systems: binary, decimal, hexadecimal
• Conversion from one number system to another
• Binary arithmetic
• Logic operations
• Logic gates
• Logic expressions
• Logic functions
• Simplification of logic functions using Karnaugh map and/or Boolean algebra
• Codes: Binary Coded Decimal (BCD), ASCII
• Combinational digital circuits
• Storage elements such as flip-flops and latches, and synchronous sequential digital circuits
• Procedural programming concepts

• Hardware description language for modeling of digital circuits
• Design combinational logic circuits using VHDL
• Design VHDL models of storage elements (Flip-flops, Latches), ALU, counters, registers, tristate devices, multiplexers, and buses
• Design finite state machines (FSM) using state diagrams and/or ASM, and implement using VHDL
• Implementation of logic elements, combinational logic circuits, sequential circuits in a FPGA
• Design ROM, SRAM, or DRAM using design tool library components and/or VHDL
• Problem solving, algorithm, flow-chart, and pseudo-code development
• Number systems, data types, and binary arithmetic
• State machines
• Basic microcontroller architecture, subsystems, and memories
• Hardware / software interaction
• Variables, expressions, and operators
• Control constructs, and looping techniques
• User-defined functions, parameters, returns, and function prototypes
• Subscripted variables, arrays
• Pointers and function parameter passing by pointers
• Pointer arithmetic
• Tool chains
• Software libraries, header files, and coding conventions
• Structures

• Design combinational circuits using VHDL
• Design VHDL models of storage elements (Flip-Flops, Latches), ALU, counters, registers, tristate devices, multiplexers, and bus
• Design finite state machine (FSM) and implement using VHDL
• Design RAM or ROM using design tool library components and/or VHDL
• Implementation of combinational logic circuits, sequential circuits, and FSMs on an FPGA
• Solve a problem with software that uses functions and control structures
• Solve a problem with software that uses arrays and pointers
• Solve a problem with software that uses external libraries