Hardware Design Techniques and Verification

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate 1. adequate knowledge in digital electronics and digital design concepts; 2. ability to design and implement digital circuits under realistic constraints and conditions; 3. ability to debug, verify, simulate digital circuits; 4. ability to devise, select, and use modern techniques and tools needed for digital design; and 5. ability to work in a team.

Elements of digital computer design; control unit, micro-programming, bus organisation and addressing schemes; micro-processors, system architecture, bus control, instruction execution and addressing modes; machine codes, assembly language and high-level language programming, micro-processors as state machines; microprocessor interfacing: input/output; technique, interrupt systems and direct memory access; interfacing to analogue systems and applications to D/A and A/D converters; system development tools: simulators, EPROM programming, assemblers and loaders, overview of available microprocessor application.