Time and location:
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Monday,
7:20-10:00 PM, Music Theater Building (formerly Fine Arts Building), room 1002
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Instructor:
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Email:
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kgaj@gmu.edu
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Office hours:
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Monday
6:00-7:00 PM, Wednesday 7:30-8:30 PM, Friday 6:00-7:00 PM, and by
appointment
The
Engineering Building, room 3225
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Please submit all your homework and project reports using
Blackboard
by going to http://mymasonportal.gmu.edu
Please use Piazza instead of e-mail for asking questions related to this class
Course Description
Introduces the design of complex digital systems using hardware description languages. Teaches design methodologies which partition a system into a datapath and
controller. Focuses on synthesizable RTL VHDL code for digital circuit design using dataflow, structural, and behavioral coding styles. Introduces VHDL simulation and verification, and FPGA synthesis, placement, routing, timing analysis, and performance optimization.
Requires semester-long project devoted to the design of a complex digital system implemented on FPGAs.
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing. No official course prerequisite is required, but an undergraduate background in digital logic design is strongly
recommended.
Required Textbooks
Pong P. Chu, RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL: Coding for
Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability, Wiley-IEEE Press,
2006.
Supplementary Textbooks
Ricardo
Jasinski, Effective
Coding with VHDL: Principles and Best Practice, 1st Edition, The
MIT Press, 2016.
Ryan Kastner, Janarbek Matai, and Stephen Neuendorffer,
Parallel Programming for FPGAs: The HLS Book, 2018.
Hubert
Kaeslin, Digital
Integrated Circuit Design: From VLSI Architectures to CMOS Fabrication,
Cambridge University Press; 1st Edition, 2008.
Stephen Brown and Zvonko
Vranesic,
Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design, 3rd Edition,
McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Software Packages Used in This Class
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Xilinx Vivado Design Suite
- ModelSim Intel FPGA
Full
versions of these packages will be available in the Computer
Engineering Labs, The Engineering Building, rooms 3208 and 3204.
FREE versions can be installed on your laptops and home
workstations.
Course Outline (subject to
possible modifications):
- Organization of the Course. Introduction to FPGA Technology. Project. 08/26/2019
- Digital Logic Refresher - Combinational Logic. 09/09/2019
- Digital Logic Refresher - Sequential Logic. 09/16/2019
- RTL Design Methodology - Part 1. 09/23/2019
- RTLDesign Methodology - Part 2. 09/30/2019
- VHDLFundamentals. 10/07/2019
- Testbenches. 10/15/2019
- Dataflow Modeling in VHDL. VHDL Description of Basic Combinational Building Blocks. 10/21/2019
- VHDL Description of Basic Sequential Building Blocks. Poor Design Practices. 10/28/2019
- Midterm Exam. 11/04/2019
- Modeling of Circuits with Regular Structure. Finite State Machine Refresher. 11/11/2019
- Designing Controllers using Algorithmic State Machine (ASM) charts - Part 1. 11/18/2019
- Designing Controllers using Algorithmic State Machine (ASM) charts - Part 2. Timing Analysis. Project Recommendations & Deliverables. 11/25/2019
- VHDL-2008. Chisel. High-Level Synthesis. Software/Hardware Codesign. 12/02/2019
- Final Exam 12/16/2019
Project
This year's project will involve implementing
Each group of students will design, implement, and optimize one
algorithm assigned to them by the instructor or proposed by themselves.
This project will support standardization organizations, such as NIST,
in selection of new cryptographic standards.
Project
Recommendations
Project Deliverables
Reduced
Complexity Block Diagrams
Examples of
5-port Wrappers
Homework
Homework assignments will be posted
gradually here, at least 5 days before a given assignment is due.
Viewgraphs
Viewgraphs will be posted gradually here.
Reference Material
VHDL
VHDL Instructions: Templates
& Examples
OpenCores
HDL Modeling Guidelines
The Low Carb VHDL Tutorial
- by Bryan Mealy
C
Block Diagram Editors
Please see a list of recommended editors
available on the page: Tools Taught in
ECE Classes, and additional materials available on the page: Tutorials and Lab
Manuals.
Past Course Web Pages
ECE 545:
Fall 2018
Fall 2017
Fall 2015
Fall 2014
Fall 2013
ECE 448:
Spring 2019
Spring 2018
Spring 2016
Spring 2015
Spring 2014
Practice and Past Exams
2018:
Solutions to the Final Exam 2018:
2017:
2015:
2014:
2013:
2012:
2011:
Solutions to the Midterm Exam 2011: [PDF, PPT]
Solutions to the Final Exam 2011 (selected deliverables
in PDF):
2010:
2009:
2006:
2005:
2004:
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