Postgraduate Course: Digital Systems Laboratory (MSc) (PGEE10009)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Course type | Standard | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Postgraduate) | 
Credits | 10 | 
 
| Home subject area | Postgrad (School of Engineering) | 
Other subject area | None | 
   
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Taught in Gaelic? | No | 
 
| Course description | The lab aims to produce students who are capable of developing hardware-software digital systems from high level functional specifications, and prototyping them on to FPGA hardware using a standard hardware description language and software programming language. | 
 
 
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |   
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes 
1. Knowledge and understanding of:  
 
I. Data paths and Control paths and number of ways of designing them;  
II. Instruction-set based control path design; 
III. Control and data path integration; 
IV. Capture the design of hardware-software digital systems in a standard hardware description language. 
 
2. Intellectual: 
 
I. Ability to use and choose between different techniques for digital system design and capture; 
II. Ability to evaluate implementation results (e.g. speed, area, power) and correlate them with the corresponding high level design and capture. 
 
3. Practical: 
  
I. Ability to use a commercial digital system development tool suite to develop a hardware-software digital system and prototype them on to FPGA hardware. | 
 
 
Assessment Information 
| Ongoing academic assessment during lab sessions through a number of checkpoints (100%). |  
 
Special Arrangements 
| None |   
 
Additional Information 
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| Syllabus | 
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| Transferable skills | 
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| Reading list | 
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| Study Abroad | 
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| Keywords | Embedded Digital System Design, Embedded Processor Programming, Verilog, Data path and Control Path | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Alister Hamilton 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5597 
Email: Alister.Hamilton@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Mrs Sharon Potter 
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079 
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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