CSE 352 Goals & Syllabus

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Catalog Data

CSE352 Catalog Description: Covers digital circuit design, processor design, and systems integration and embedded-systems issues. Include substantial hardware laboratory.

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Course Goals

1. Understanding digital logic at the gate and switch level including combinational and sequential logic elements
2. Understanding clocking methodologies and system timing
3. Learning how to specify digital-logic designs and compile these into digital circuit implementations
4. Learning a set of tools for digital logic design
5. Appreciating the difference between implementing a function in hardware and software, and the advantages and disadvantages of each
6. Understanding the design and implementation of processor architectures

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Course Syllabus

1. Introduction to modern digital-logic design
2. Combinational logic
• Switch logic and basic gates
• Boolean algebra
• Two-level logic
• Regular logic structures
• Multilevel networks and transformations
• Programmable logic devices
• Time response
• Case studies
3. Sequential logic
• Networks with feedback
• Basic latches and flip-flops
• Timing methodologies
• Registers and counters
• Programmable logic devices
• Case studies
4. Finite-state-machine design
• Concepts of FSMs
• Basic design approach
• Specification methods
• Implementing FSMs
• Case studies
5. Processor Design
• Arithmetic circuits
• Arithmetic and logic units
• Register and bus structures
• Controllers/Sequencers
• Instruction set implementation
• Memory system
• Pipelining
• Interrupts and embedded systems concepts
6. Computer-aided design tools for logic design
• Schematic entry
• State-diagram entry
• Hardware-description-language (HDL) entry
• Compiling to logic networks
• Simulation
• Mapping to programmable logic devices
7. Practical topics
• Asynchronous inputs and metastability
• Memories: RAM and ROM
• Implementation technologies

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