Objective

This course is about mastering two main stream electronic circuit design tools used in the analogue and digital domains respectively. By understanding the analytical capabilities of the circuit simulation tool, SPICE, students will learn how to efficiently grasp fully the behaviour of a circuit under design and to deliver first time correct circuits. In learning the hardware description language, VHDL, students will appreciate how the productivity of individual logic designers can be dramatically improved and how this is made possible due to the description power of the language and then the opportunity of design automation through synthesis.

Syllabus

• Circuit Level
• Logic Level
• System Level
• Hardware Level

Learning Outcome

SPICE:

• understand the three basis circuit analyses, dc, ac and time
• use SPICE to perform circuit analysis
• obtain desirable circuit behaviours through the use of models, combination of analytical commands and extraction of simulation results
• use SPICE as an effective interactive design tool

 VHDL:

• understand the fundamental and the purpose of HDL
• acquire the language constructs and the underlying modeling concepts
• develop ability to describe a hardware in different abstraction levels
• use VHDL as a tool in today’s digital design synthesis flow

 General:

• understand the basic in representing hardware in the forms of drawings and computer graphics

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