Academic Year 2021/2022
Period: S2 (Feb. 21 - Jun. 10)
M.Sc. INGEGNERIA ELETTRONICA - 6CFU

This course is an intermediate to advanced level course about digital system design, focusing on digital design and use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). In addition, it centers around the new computing paradigm of (I)IoT, in which the FPGAs are typically used as accelerators . The theoretical aspects of the course focus on digital system modeling and design using the VHDL Hardware Description Language. In the course, students learn about logic synthesis, behavioral modeling, module hierarchies, combinatorial and sequential primitives, and implementing and testing the designs in simulation and real FPGAs. Students also learn about FPGA tools from one of the major vendors: Intel FPGAs (formerly Altera).
The course features semester project where students design, implement, test, and evaluate a real-world design.