This course provides an introduction to the analysis and design of digital systems and microprocessors. Review of combinational logic analysis and design. Systematic design methods. Analysis and design of synchronous sequential machines. Computer aided design and programming of digital electronic circuits using VHDL hardware description language and FPGA programmable logic devices. Microprocessor and microcomputer architecture. Microprocessor devices, their architecture and instruction sets. Hardware aspects of instruction execution. Assembler and C programming. Input/output, bus interfacing, interrupts. Co-design of digital hardware and microprocessor systems.

• Use top-down design to translate system requirements into a practical digital design.
• Design complex digital systems through finite state machines and the register transfer level technique and implement these in programmable logic.
• Learn fixed point DSP.
• Learn how to program in C and VERILOG HDL.
• Learn to use ISE WebPACK to realise complex digital designs in FPGAs.
• Learn about and use free and open source design software.
• Learn practical electronics testbench skills and the ability to communicate appropriately via a lab notebook.
• Learn to build and use microprocessors

Assessment (10%) Midterm Exam (20%) Labs (30%) Exam and Project (40%)

ENGN2211 or 12 units B-Group COMP courses including COMP2300

Reading Material

• Text book - John F Wakerly (Digital Design, Principles and Practices, Prentice Hall) - available now in the book shop.
• There is a reading brick from 2008.

There are a number of other texts:

• Vahid and Lysecky (Verilog for Digital Design, Wiley): good for RTL verilog.
• Milos Ercegovac (Introduction to Digital Systems, Wiley. Chs 13-15) good for RTL design but all in VHDL and
• Furber (ARM SoC Architecture, Addison-Wesley): background reading for later on in the course.

Reading Material On the WEBSITE

• The old brick (ENGN3213 2008 Brick.pdf). There are a limited number available in hardcopy for AUD 7. 
• The detailed tour of the (course lecture3 and 4.pdf). This is lectures 3-4 and it will prove useful to download it already for tomorrow's lecture.
• PICOBLAZE manuals: hardware manual (xapp213.pdf) and C compiler (pccomp manual.pdf)
• Datasheets for Xilinx FPGAs
• Several documents on Finite State Machines (FSMs), Register Transfer Level (RTL) Design and VERILOG HDL
• The CLAB and HLAB manuals will become available as needed.