Digital System Design II

Catalog description

This a follow-up course to ECEN 3431 introducing more topics in Digital System Design including Verilog Hardware Description Language. The course provides a solid background in the use and application of Verilog HDL to digital hardware design. The course starts with the basic concepts of hardware description, then tackles structural, dataflow, and behavioral modeling in Verilog. Switch level modeling, timing analysis, and UDPs are also covered. Finally, the basics of all programmable logic devices and details of synthesis, mapping, and routing to FPGAs are studied.