ELE545 Spring 1997 Homepage

ELE545 Design of Digital Circuits

WF 2:00 - 3:40 PM, Kelley 103

Instructor: Dr. Jien-Chung Lo, Office: K-211, Tel: (401) 874-2996, FAX: (401) 782-6422

Office hours: WF 1-2 PM, Emails are welcome: jcl@ele.uri.edu

In this course students study advanced and recent topics on digital circuits. Starting from Quinn-McCluskey method, we will venture into area far beyond the basic logic designs. Students will learn about complex Boolean function manipulations, desgining strategies and automation algorithms. We will deal with both combinational and sequential circuit. We will study both designing and testing aspect of digital logic circuits. We shall review the IEEE VHDL standard that has been used as the hardware design laguage of the industry in recent years. Finally, we shall briefly examine some current and practical topics such as low power designs and asynchronous designs.

Text Book: E. J. McCluskey, Logic Design Principles: with emphasis on testable semicustom circuits, Prentice-Hall, 1986.

Syllabus & Schedule '97

week	dates	lectures	text book
1	1/13 - 1/17	Numbers, codes, and switching algebra	ch. 1&2
2	1/20 - 1/24	Analysis of combinational circuits	ch. 3
3	1/27 - 1/31	Integrated circuits + special properites	ch. 4&5
4	2/3 - 2/7	Combinational circuit design	ch. 6.1 - 6.6
5	2/10 - 2/14	Combinational circuit design	ch. 6.7 - 6.13
6*	2/17 - 2/21	Analysis of sequential circuits	ch. 7
7	2/24 - 2/28	Sequential circuits	ch. 8&9
8	3/3 - 3/7	review + Mid-term examination	N/A
9	3/10 - 3/14	Spring recess	N/A
10	3/17 - 3/21	Design for testability	ch. 10
11	3/24 - 3/28	IEEE VHDL standard	handouts
12	3/31 - 4/4	VHDL continue	handouts
13	4/7 - 4/11	Low power logic designs	handouts
14	4/14 - 4/18	Asynchronous logic designs	handouts
15	4/21 - 4/25	Final project presentations	handouts
-	5/9	Final Examination at 8 - 11 AM	N/A

Grading policy: Homeworks 30%, Mid-Term 15%, Project 30%, Final 25%

Project Proposals are due 3/5; two days before Mid-term examination. Each team (or individual) should submit a title page contains project title and names of collaborators plus a 1-3 pages description of your porjeect goals and methodology.

Typical project topics: Survey of advanced design and test techniques in a specific area, using VHDL to verify a new design approach, analysis and comparative studies of current techniques, etc.

VHDL Cookbook and quick reference are now available here.

Links to Low Power related sites:

Low Power Product Directory: A good starting point to find low-power products available on market.
Low Power WWW Pages: A collection of web pages related to low power logic designs.
Power estimation references: Find out all about power estimation tools.
Low Power Programmable DSP Chips: by Berkeley Design Technology.
Heterodimensional Device Research Group: a radical new semiconductor device for low-power designs.
Advanced RISC Machine: high performance RISC for low-power applications.
Adiabatic Computation A report about adiabatic logic (a different way to build CMOS gates).
MIT AI Lab Reversible Computing Home Page: Reversible == Adiabatic

Links to Asynchronous Logic Designs related sites:

Asynchronous Logic Home Page: A good starting point to find information on the web.
The AMULET Group Home Page: Amulet is the first commercially available Asynchronous processor.

Disclaimer: The syllabus and schedule above are tentitive. They are for reference only.

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