Logic Systems and Processors

Topic outline

• BE5B35LSP - Logic systems and processors
  

  BE5B35LSP - Logic systems and processors

  The course is an introduction to basic hardware structures of computing resources, their design, and architecture. It provides an overview of the implementation of data operations at hardware and the creation of embedded processor systems with peripherals on advance programmable logic FPGAs.

  The course requires basic knowledge of logic functions and binary numbers presented in APOLOS prerequisite, see http://dcenet.felk.cvut.cz/edu/fpga/doc/Apolos_V11_eng.pdf

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  • Important links

    • The submission of tasks  https://dcenet.felk.cvut.cz/fpga/
    • Software installations and study materials:  http://dcenet.felk.cvut.cz/edu/fpga/Default_en.aspx
  • The description of your 1st task with solved example - 15 points - November 15th, 2018, is the dead line File
  • Credits and exam

    To obtain credit from practical exercises, you must solve two tasks assigned to your and obtain from them the sum greater or equal to 50 points.

    To pass the exam, you must get at least 30 points (the half) from written test. The points from practical exercises will be added to these points. If you obtain the sum greater then 100 points you successfully pass the course. The value of your points will determine your grade.

    • 90-99 is E,
    • 100-109 is D
    • 110-119 is C
    • 120-129 is B
    • 130 and above is A
  • 3rd Task File
  • Sample of Written Exam Test - V1.1 - corrected swapped result Q3-f1 File
• Week 1
  

  Week 1

  Lecture - Logic functions

  Practical exercises: Introduction

  • 1st lecture File
• Week 2
  

  Week 2

  Lecture: Shannon expansion, VHDL

  Practical exercises: Project for DE2 board

  • 2nd lecture File
  • Quartus task from Seminary File
• Week 3
  

  Week 3

  Lecture: VHDL concurrent constructions compiled by multiplexer

  Practical exercises: Advance wor with Quartus block diagrams

  • Seminary 1 File
  • 3rd lecture V1.1 - corrected slide 57 File
• Week 4
  

  Week 4

  Lecture: Priority task and VHDL process

  • 4th lecture File
  • Quartus source codes File
  • PatMat -Quartus File
• Week 5
  

  Week 5

  Lecture: RS-latch, Master-Slave flip-flop, flip-flops in VHDL

  • 5th lecture - V11 - added notes to incomplete assignments File
  • Animation of Master-Slave flip-flop File
• Week 6
  

  Week 6

  Lecture:  VHDL registers,  SRAM Memories, Ripple effect in circuits.

  • 6th lecture File
• Week 7
  

  Week 7

  Adders, counters. Combinational hazards and sequential circuits in VHDL. Metastability

  • Slides from lecture File
• Week 8
  

  Week 8

  Finite state machines and control units

  • Slides from lecture File
• Week 9
  

  Week 9

  Exceptionally, the lecture will be held on Thursday, December 6th, at 17:15 in room KN-E-23.

  Processor NIOS, our own processor 42. Phase lock loops.

  • Slides from the lecture File
  • Selected NIOS Instructions File
  • Quartus source code of Processor 42 File
  • Altera: NIOS instruction set reference File
• Week 10
  

  Week 10

  Shift registers and their usage - random generators and CRC codes, Microprogram. Asynchronous bus. 

  • Slides from the lecture File
  • 10th seminary File
  • Nios program for practical exercises File
• Week 11
  

  Week 11

  Integer arithmetics. Integral equations in VHDL. Interconnections on chips. Avalon bus. How to write a professional testbench.

  • Slides from the lecture File
  • Nios VGA Quartus project File
  • Quartus Bin2Gray with the professional testbench File
• Week 12
  

  Week 12

  Nondeterministic automata, finite acceptors, BDD, fix-point arithmetic
• Week 13
  

  Week 13
• Week 14
  

  Week 14