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ECE441 - Design of Digital and VLSI Systems

Description

Advanced combinational and sequential logic design. Optimization of finite state machines; timing methodologies and synchronization issues. Hardware description languages (HDL): structural and behavioural descriptions, simulation and testbenches, coding styles, design with HDL and FPGA implementation. Design for test: testing concepts, scan-based design and built-in self-test (BIST). Design for high speed: timing analysis, pipelining and retiming. Design for low power: sources of power dissipation, design transformations.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-1.5-0

Formerly

CENG 441

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of ECE 441, CENG 440, CENG 441, CENG 465.

Prerequisites

  • Complete all of the following
    • Complete 1 of:
    • minimum fourth-year standing in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science.

Course offered by

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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