High-Level Digital Design

Course developed by: Juan Manuel Moreno, Electronic Engineering Dept, UPC
Contact: joan.manuel.moreno@upc.edu

Course Description

This Master’s course aims that the student understands the implications of hardware/software co-design and the use of configurable integrated systems (SOC), as well as high-level design principles of digital systems based on programmable and configurable components. 

The student will use the SystemVerilog hardware description language and the Universal Verification Methodology to carry out the functional verification of complex digital systems. The sustainability implications of the design decisions, as well as techniques to reduce this impact, will also be discussed in this course.

The course also covers the design and implementation, using high-level design languages and techniques, of digital communication and information processing systems, as well as communication interfaces between programmable subsystems (microprocessor/microcontroller) and configurable subsystems (FPGA).

Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, students are able to …