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. 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
• Multilevel networks and transformations
• Programmable logic devices
• Delay and circuit performance
• Case studies
3. Sequential logic
• Clocks and timing methodologies
• Registers, register files and memories
• Case studies
4. Processor Design
• Arithmetic circuits
• Arithmetic and logic units
• Register and bus structures
• Instruction set implementation
• Memory system
• Pipelining
• Interrupt,s memory-mapped I/O and embedded systems concepts
5. Computer-aided design tools for logic design
• Schematic entry
• Hardware-description-languages
• Simulation and synthesis
6. Practical topics
• Asynchronous inputs and metastability
• Serial and parallel communication
• Memories: RAM and ROM
• FPGA architectures

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