ECGR 41465146 Introduction to VHDL

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ECGR 4146/5146 Introduction to VHDL

• Arindam Mukherjee

www.ece.uncc.edu/amukherj
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Syllabus

• VHSIC Hardware Programming Language
• VHDL programming
• Synthesis, Fit
• Text Book
• K. Skahill, VHDL for Programmable Logic, Addison
  Wesley, 1996.
• Objective
• High level design capture
• Understand the synthesis-silicon link

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Syllabus

• Prerequisites
• ECGR 3181 and knowledge of a computer language or
  permission of department.
• What you need
• ECGR 2181 Ability to design digital
  combinational and sequential logic circuits at
  the gate level including registers, counters,
  multiplexers, adders, etc.
• ECGR 3131 Basic understanding of the physics and
  operation of MOSFETs.

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Syllabus

• Topics
• 1. Overview of Hardware Description Languages
• Historical Perspectives
• Levels of Abstraction
• Impact on the Design and Development Process
• 2. VHDL Structure and Syntax
• Entity Statements
• Generics
• Architectural Descriptions
• Basic Modeling and Syntax
• Processes

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Syllabus

• Topics
• 3. Programmable Logic
• Programming Technologies
• PLD Architectures and Features
• CPLD Architectures and Features
• FPGA Architectures and Features
• 4. VHDL Modeling
• Combinational Logic
• Sequential Logic
• Multiple Processes
• Basic Concurrency
• Modeling Styles and Guidelines
• Hierarchical Design and Modeling

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Syllabus

• Topics
• 5. VHDL Simulation and Synthesis
• Concurrent Simulation
• Basic Event Driven Simulation and Timing
• System Level Simulation
• Test Benches
• Synthesis Process
• Effect of VHDL Description on Synthesis
• Implementation in CPLDs and FPGAs

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Timeline
final
topics
week
Test 1 9/25/2002 1st Assgnmt
9/11/2002 2nd Assgnmt 10/14/2002 Project
10/9/2002 -gt 11/25/2002 3rd
Assgnmt 10/9/2002 -gt 10/28/2002 Test 2
11/6/2002 Final
12/4/2002
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Syllabus

• Office Hours
• 330 pm 530 pm, Mondays and Wednesdays.
• Marking
• Assignments 20
• Test 1 10
• Test 2 10
• Project 40
• Final 20

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Grading

• Undergraduates
• A 80 or more
• B 65 - 79
• C 50 64
• D 40 49
• F lt 40
• Graduates
• A 85 or more
• B 70 - 84
• C 55 69
• U lt 55