Week 1: Introduction and Review of Basic Digital Design
Week 2: Overview of Standard Cell Based ASIC Design followed by Guest Lecture
with
Urban Jangren
Design Center Manager
Cadence Design Systems
"Systems on Chip Design Issues"
Week 3: Basic Automated Digital Design Flow (Focused on Verilog Modeling).
Lab 1: Basic Digital Design Simulation and Implementation
Week 4: ****Wednesday 1/26/00********
Introduction to FPGA architecture and synthesis
Lab 2 round 1: Bright Spot Cross Hairs
Week 5: ****Monday 1/31/00**********
Guest Lecture: Emil Ochotta, PhD
Xilinx Corporation Design Automation R&D
FPGA system design considerations and SW tools
Lab 2: Round 2: Bright Spot Cross Hairs
Week 6: Micro-Computer System Architecture
Week 7: Guest Lecture
John Havard
Stratos
Product Development Group, LLC, Seattle WA
Servers
to Wearables: Power/Cost/Performance Tradeoffs in MicroComputer System Design
Week 8: Intro to the Intel Strong-Arm Development Platform
Lab 1: Programming the Strong-Arm
Week 9: Linux as Embedded Operating System
Week 10: Lab 2: Device Drivers and Embedded Applications