Postgraduate Course: Digital Systems Laboratory (MSc) (PGEE11117)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 10 | 
ECTS Credits | 5 | 
 
 
| Summary | The laboratory 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. | 
 
| Course description | 
    
    Laboratory exercise designed to teach Embedded Digital 
System Design, Embedded Processor Programming, Verilog 
Hardware Description Language, Data Path design and 
Control Path design through the completion of successive 
design tasks.
    
    
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
| Additional Costs |  Purchase of laboratory notebook | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  46 | 
 
| Course Start | 
Semester 2 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
(
 Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 30,
 Formative Assessment Hours 1,
 Summative Assessment Hours 10,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
57 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Coursework %: 100 | 
 
| Feedback | 
Not entered | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - Data paths and Control paths and number of ways of designing them.
 - Ability to use and choose between different techniques
 - Ability to use a commercial digital system development tool suite
 - Ability to evaluate implementation results
 - Instruction-set based control path design
 
     
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Keywords | Embedded Digital System Design Embedded Processor Programming Hardware Description Language Verilog | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Alister Hamilton 
Tel: (0131 6)50 5597 
Email:  | 
Course secretary | Mrs Megan Inch-Kellingray 
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079 
Email:  | 
   
 
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