Credits:
Semesters Offered
Learning Objectives
- Design digital logic, microprocessor software, and LSI component (peripherals, memory, analog interface) to meet a problem specification
- Learn to implement embedded systems with mixed technology designs using both programmable logic and software
- Develop skills in current-technology logic and software design environments
- Use digital bench instruments to observe and debug embedded system hardware and software
- Practice in writing technical design documentation
Topics Covered
- FPGA architecture and design tools
- Interfacing microprocessors to FPGAs
- Interface and application of standard peripherals
- Debugging with simulation
- Debugging with bench instruments
- System bus standards and implementation
- Making software/hardware tradeoffs
- Memory interface design
- Hardware design with timing constraints
- Realtime software design
- System fault and error recovery
- Communication and control protocols
- Embedded system operator interface design
- Writing technical documents