Guia docente 2015_16 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Technologies of digital integrated circuits	CMOS technology: operating modes, logic gates and fabrication.
CMOS integrated circuits	Design metrics. Input/output. Timing parameters.
Sequential design	Synchronizers. State machine design.
Advanced VHDL	VHDL description of complex digital systems. Advanced structures.
Semiconductor memories	SRAM and DRAM memories, EEPROM. FLASH and PCM memories. Design of memory interfaces. VHDL description.
Sampling and signal reconstruction	ADC and DAC circuits. Sampling and reconstruction. Conversion errors.
Arithmetic in FPGAs	Numerical formats, overflow, precision, arithmetic circuits. VHDL description.
Retiming and pipeline techniques	Critical path and latency. Tecniques for the reduction of time delays. Hardware cost.
Frequency synthesis	Numeric controlled oscillators (NCOs). Parameters and design tecniques. Implementation using reconfigurable devices
Series vs. parallel implementations	Design techniques. Parallelism degree. Timing response. Hardware cost.
Laboratory Practices	Design of a storing and data transference system. Design of a complex interface with standard peripherals.