5.00 credits
30.0 h + 30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Bol David;
Language
English
Prerequisites
- The basic formation in digital electronic circuits is compulsory: LELEC2531 at UCL.
- A course in embedded system design is an advantage: LINGI2315 at UCL.
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
The exponential increase in computing performances of digital integrated circuits (ICs) fundamentally modified our everyday's life in numerous domains (consumer, business, medical, industrial). Nowadays these circuits feature several millions of transistors, which results a high design complexity.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
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With respect to the AA referring system defined for the Master in Electrical Engineering, the course contributes to the development, mastery and assessment of the following skills :
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Content
- Microcontroller-based embedded systems.
- High-level design and verification of digital SoCs.
- Robust HDL coding in Verilog.
- Logic synthesis of digital circuits.
- Clocking and timing closure.
- Digital standard cell libraries and hard macros.
- Place and route of digital circuits.
- CMOS technology scaling.
- DSP architecture, arithmetic circuits and hardware accelerators.
Teaching methods
The course is organized as follows.
- Lectures introducing the various digital IC concepts, illustrated by recent digital IC examples from both the industrial and research worlds.
- Seminars given by experts from the industrial world regarding the design of digital ICs.
- A central project on the full design of an industry-relevant digital SoC with weekly group assignements linked to the steps of the design flow. In this project, the students use industrial EDA tools to design their SoC.
- The interaction between the students, the teachers and assistants will be encouraged by the use of a discussion forum on Moodle platform and interactive project debriefing sessions during the lectures.
Evaluation methods
The evaluation is based on:
- a certificative continuous evaluation based on short weekly group assignments, which together accounts for 30% of the final grade;
- a written individual exam during the exam session, wich accounts for 70% of the final grade.
Online resources
Bibliography
Chapitres de certains livres de référence.
Teaching materials
- Transparents des cours, chapitres de certains livres de référence disponibles en ligne.
Faculty or entity
ELEC
