The objective of this course is to provide students with the ability to design complex or high frequency digital systems. Firstly, the electrical characteristics, power consumption, speed and fan-out of digital integrated circuits and the technologies of semiconductor memories are studied. Subsequently, the interface with external peripherals and the methodology for designing synchronous sequential systems are analyzed. Finally, the course focuses on the design of digital communications systems implemented using high density of integration programmable circuits. Meanwhile, throughout all contents, emphasis is placed in the VHDL description of high complexity digital systems.
