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ECAD

Lecturer: Dr G.S. Taylor (gst22@cl.cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures and practicals: 8 + 7

Prerequisite courses: Digital Electronics, Structured Hardware Design

This course is a prerequisite for VLSI Design (Part II).

Aims

This course aims to introduce electronic computer aided design (ECAD) with a particular emphasis on the Verilog hardware description language (HDL).

The material covered in the initial lectures is vital for the mandatory ECAD+Architecture afternoon workshops.

Lectures

Objectives

At the end of the course students should:

Recommended books

Smith, D.R. & Franzon, P.D. Verilog Styles for Synthesis of Digital Systems. Prentice Hall.
Thomas, D.E. & Moorby, P. (1995). The Verilog Hardware Description Language. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Sternheim, E., Singh, R., Madhaven, R. & Trivedi, Y. (1993). Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL. Automata.

From the Part IA Digital Electronics course:

Katz, R.H. (1994). Contemporary Logic Design. Benjamin/Cummings.

Pointers to sources of more specialist information are included in the lecture notes and on the associated course web page.



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Christine Northeast
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