Advanced Techniques in Digital Design

• 39 hrs lectures

• 100 pts final exam

To understand advanced techniques in design of complex digital systems.  To be able to use modern technology and systems for digital design to build new hardware devices. To understand modern principles of logic synthesis and get advanced knowledge in hardware/software codesign and reconfigurable computing.
Students will be able to use modern techniques, tools and technologies for the design of hardware devices. 
Using modern techniques to design hardware devices.

• Joo Manuel Paiva Cardoso, Jos Gabriel de Figueiredo Coutinho, and Pedro C. Diniz. 2017. Embedded Computing for High Performance: Efficient Mapping of Computations Using Customization, Code Transformations and Compilation. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Marwedel, P.: Embeded System Design: Embedded Systems Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things, 3rd Edition. Springer, USA, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-56043-4.
• Sarkar, Angsuman, Swapnadip De, Manash Chanda, and Chandan Kumar Sarkar. 2016. Low Power VLSI Design Fundamentals.

1. Introduction: Summary of current approaches to digital design.
2. Modern approaches to the logic synthesis of digital circuits, optimization at the logical level and the target technology. Models and methods of synthesis (AIG, BDD,functional equivalence checking).
3. Synthesis of circuits from high-level programming languages (circuit representation, process planning, allocation and assignment of resources).
4. Functional verification of digital circuits with respect to the coverage of source codes, states, etc. The synergy of logic synthesis and verification. OVM methodology.
5. Embedded computer system, design of embedded systems with microcontrollers, specification of requirements for embedded systems.
6. The methods to select appropriate target platform for the embedded system, processes to select appropriate key components of the system.
7. Typical software architecture of embedded system. Testing, debugging and diagnostics of embedded systems.
8. Modern computing technologies, structures and heterogeneous platforms (FPGAs 3D IC, IP-core, hard / soft CPU, DSP etc.).
9. Concurrent design of embedded HW / SW systems (models, distribution, estimates, synthesis, integration, optimization).
10. Reconfigurable computing - acceleration in hardware with flexibility of software. (reconfiguration, design tools for C / C ++ high-level synthesis etc.).
11. The design of embedded systems with respect to the energy consumption (power reduction at various levels, ambient energy sources and their use etc.).
12. Acceleration of application-specific time-critical operations (network traffic processing, image processing, etc.).
13. Recent trends in technology, logic synthesis and reconfigurable computing.

Elaboration and presentation of a project.