CS523: Digital Circuits Design Lab Using EDA Tools (Spring 2024)

Area:	Microelectronic Systems Architecture (A) - M.Sc. Program
Description:	Electronic Design Automation (EDA) flows and Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools for digital circuit design. Advanced features of Hardware Description Languages (Verilog, VHDL). Behavioral and structural models. Simulation: algorithms and tools. Timing analysis. Design verification: input stimuli, output checking, simulations with models at different abstraction levels. Digital circuit testing and design for testability (DFT). Synthesizable description and logic synthesis tools (e.g. Xilinx Vivado, Synopsys Design Compiler). Placement and Routing: tools and techniques. Incremental design flows (back-annotation, ECO, LVS). Examples on FPGA and ASIC technologies. Using available IP cores to build System-on-Chip (SoC). Laboratory assignments on designing and verifying digital systems of medium complexity using the presented tools and flows for multiple target technologies (FPGA and ASIC).
ECTS:	6
Prerequisites:	CS220 - Digital Circuits Lab CS225 - Computer Organization
Mailing-list:	hy523-list at csd dot uoc dot gr