Aims

The aim of the course is to study in-depth advanced digital integrated circuits and digital electronics systems. This course will also introduce reconfigurable architectures and parallel processor architectures.

Main themes

Identical to the contents of the course

Content and teaching methods

1) Advanced digital integrated circuits
- precharged circuits (Domino Logic, No-Race, TSPC)
- differentials circuits
- arithmetic circuits (adders, multipliers, PLA)
- test of digital circuits
2) Reconfigurable architectures
- PLD, CPLD, FPGA
- hardware-software codesign
- simulation and synthesis : VHDL and SystemC
3) Processor architectures
- risk and pipelined architectures
- parallel architectures (VLIW, SIMD, superscalar)
-DSP architectures

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequisite :
ELEC2531 : Electronics III

Assessment method :
Works performed during the semester
Based on small projects done by the students (VHDL, SystemC, Eldo simulations) on on a written examination

Support :
Copy of the slides and a dedicated website

For more information:

http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~jdl/InfoCours/InfoCours.htm

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