Practical report

Examination 

The relative merits of several commercially available microcontrollers e.g. 68HC11, ATMEL, PIC. A key exemplar for an embedded system for example an advanced PIC microcontroller will be discussed in depth, to outline the internal (Harvard) architecture, hardware capabilities and instruction set. 
 A detailed consideration of the onboard features will be addressed: Programming the ADC (Analogue to Digital Converter) Serial communications, the USART, synchronous and asynchronous communications, IIC to interface with PC Programming the PWM module. Programming the on-board timers. Programming EEPROM. 
 Digital system design process. EDA tools and design viewpoints. Behavioral, dataflow, and gate-level descriptions. 
 Hardware description languages. VHDL modelling concepts. Behavioral and structural architecture descriptions. Concurrent and sequential statements. Event driven simulation. 
 Building blocks for digital systems: tri-state buffers, multiplexers, latches, flip-flops, registers, counters, arithmetic circuits, finite state machines. 
 Register Level operation 
 Introduction to Programmable Logic Devices (FPGAs, CPLDs).

Advanced Embedded Systems and VLSI Design - 5601ICBTEL

Advanced Embedded Systems and VLSI Design

Apply Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and Hardware Description Languages to design and synthesize digital system(s) and apply on-chip debugging techniques for modern FPGA/CPLD-based hardware platforms such as Xilinx Spartan FPGA devices

Explain VLSI design with PROM, SPLD, CPLD & FPGA internal architecture and Solve digital systems by using HDL

Describe microcontroller internal architecture and based systems and interpret the design specification and requirement to solve an engineering problem(s), and choose the best fit microcontroller to design and solve the identified problem

Develop hardware solutions by connecting sensors and actuators to solve engineering problems, then interface seamlessly with software. Utilize appropriate development tools, like programming IDEs and debuggers, to implement purpose-fit software