ECE 368 - CAD-Based Digital Design
Description:  Credit 4. CAD tools and VHDL programming for combinational and sequential circuit design, FPGA implementation of complex circuits, design project using CAD tools, FPGA implementations.

Prerequisite:  ECE 366.

Textbooks:  Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design, S. Brown and Z. Vranesic, 2000.

Topics:

  • 1. Introduction to VHDL 
  • 2. Combinational Design using VHDL 
  • 3. Sequential Circuit Design using VHDL 
  • 4. Introduction To FPGAs 
  • 5. Issues and tools tech. mapping for FPGA impl. 
  • 6. Issues and tools in physical design for FPGA impl. 
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