Bridge Digital Design and Procedural Programming

Catalog description

This course introduces students to two types of programming languages. VHDL, a hardware descriptive language, will be used to develop digital logic-based solutions. It will be used to implement combinational and sequential logic solutions. Designs may include components such as ALUs, multiplexors, buses, flip-flops, counters, registers, and finite state machines. The designs will be realized in hardware using an FPGA-based development board. The other part of this course introduces concepts that are required to solve engineering problems using structured programming techniques. Students will develop a working knowledge of a high-level programming language and the tools used in developing solutions to solve engineering problems. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the interaction of programs with the supporting hardware (program flow in memory, data usage in memory, pointers, and structures). A course project incorporating the major topics from the class may be included.