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Aims :

Acquisition of knowledge on microprocessor architecture, reconfigurable architectures and design methodologies of digital systems.

Topics :

VHDL : Programming language oriented to hardware implementation. Structural, behavioural and RTL description. Examples of ardchitectures described in VHDL.
FPGA : technologies of FPGA. Comparison FPGA-MPGA. Interconnection architectures. Placement and routine. Description of the architectures of some FPGA families.
Arithmetic circuits on integers and floating point representations: serial and parallel adders, serial, parallel and systolic multipliers, dividers.
Microcontroller architectures: CPU, Pipeline, Memory, I/O.
Motorola/Freescale Microcontroller architectures.
Examples of design of digital circuits, use of SPICE and VHDL simulators.
(see www.laureaelettronica.ing.univpm.it)

Textbooks :

1- Appunti a cura del docente
2- G.Bucci, "Architetture dei calcolatori elettronici", McGraw-Hill, 2001
3- B.Riccò, F.Fantini, P.Brambilla, " Introduzione ai circuiti integrati digitali", Zanichelli Telettra, 1991.
4- P.Olivo, M.Favalli, "Esercizi di elettronica digitale", Progetto Leonardo, Esculapio, 1991.
5- Carver Mead, Lynn Conway, "Introduzione ai sitemi VLSI," a cura di Antognetti,Marino,Vernazza, Ingegneria Elettrica Franco Angeli ed. 1984 (from: Carver Mead, Lynn Conway, "Introduction to VLSI System", Addison-Wesley, 1980).
6- Weste, Eshraghian, "Principles of CMOS VLSI design", Addison Wesley, 1985 .
7- M.Annaratone,"Digital CMOS circuit Design", Kluwer Academic.
8- Z.Navabi,"VHDL analysis and modeling of digital systems", Mc Graw Hill, 1993.
9- R.Lipsett,C.Scaefer,C.Ussery,"VHDL: Hardware description and design", Kluwer academic publisher.

Exam :

Written test (or presentation of a project developed by the student) and oral examination.

Tutorial Session :

Tuesday and thursday 10.30-12.30.