Digital Systems Design

This module aims to teach the student material that an Electronic engineer should know before proceeding with digital and microprocessor system designs. This includes topics relating to electronic component and subsystem behaviour, system modelling, microprocessor and related hardware operation and programming. General background is provided to the technologies that are available for implementation and modelling of electronic and microprocessor based systems together with examples of simple applications that can be used in various engineering product designs.
The material in this module provides information on the design of digital systems built from various advanced components. The first part covers the description of the advanced arithmetic and FSM components. The second part teaches how to develop a range of practical designs using those components and how to model it in VHDL.