Master - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
Master - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
Master - Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie
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Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg 73<br />
Department of Physics and Astronomy<br />
Code: MWInf3 (<strong>Master</strong> module)<br />
Course Title: Design of VLSI Circuits using<br />
VHDL<br />
Programme: Physics (<strong>Master</strong>)<br />
Type: Lecture with practical exercises<br />
Credit Points: 4<br />
Workload: 120 h<br />
Teaching Hours:<br />
4/week<br />
Mode: WM<br />
Term:<br />
SS<br />
Module Parts:<br />
• Lecture on “Design of VLSI Circuits using VHDL“ (2 hours/week)<br />
• Practical Exercises (2 hours/week)<br />
Module Contents:<br />
• Motivation: Why automated Circuit Design?<br />
• Levels of Abstraction and Views<br />
• Target Technologies<br />
• Components of Digital Circuits<br />
• Optimization of Digital Circuits<br />
• VHDL Overview<br />
• Signals and Data Types<br />
• VHDL Operators<br />
• Parallel and Sequential Statements<br />
• Details about Sequential Statements<br />
• Finite State Machines in VHDL<br />
• VHDL and Synthesis of Digital Circuits<br />
• VHDL for the Design of FPGAs VHDL<br />
• VHDL in Commercial Designs<br />
Objective: Basics of the hardware description language VHDL; practical application to<br />
digital circuits.<br />
Necessary/useful Knowledge: Content of UKInf2, UKEL2<br />
Recommended Literature: announced by lecturer<br />
Specialties: –<br />
Form of Testing and Examination: defined by lecturer before beginning of course<br />
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