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DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES

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DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND MULTIMEDIA - TECNOLOGIE DELLE COMUNICAZIONI E MULTIMEDIA

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Other Courses of the Study Programme

Course year: 1

2D VISION SYSTEMS - 6 credits - Characterising
3D VISION SYSTEMS - 6 credits - Characterising
ANTENNAS - 6 credits - Student's own choice
APPLIED ECONOMICS IN ENGINEERING - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
COMPLEX SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND CONTROL - 6 credits - Student's own choice
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES - 9 credits - Student's own choice
ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN - 9 credits - Characterising
ELECTRONIC DEVICES - 6 credits - Characterising
ELEMENTS OF SOFTWARE DESIGN - 6 credits - Student's own choice
MICROWAVE ENGINEERING - 6 credits - Student's own choice
MOBILE PROGRAMMING - 6 credits - Student's own choice
MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF DYNAMIC SYSTEMS - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
SENSORS
Attendance grouping
9 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza

Course year: 2

3D VISION SYSTEMS - 6 credits - Characterising
ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN
Attendance grouping
9 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
ANTENNAS - 6 credits - Student's own choice
BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND WEALTH - 6 credits - Student's own choice
COMPLEX SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND CONTROL - 6 credits - Student's own choice
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES - 9 credits - Student's own choice
DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES - 6 credits
ELECTRONIC DEVICES - 6 credits - Characterising
ELECTRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN
Attendance grouping
12 credits - Raggruppamento di frequenza
ELEMENTS OF SOFTWARE DESIGN - 6 credits - Student's own choice
FINAL THESIS - 18 credits - Language/Final Examination
INDUSTRIAL AND SERVICE ROBOTS - 6 credits - Student's own choice
INSTRUMENTATION ELECTRONICS, SENSORS AND MICROSYSTEMS - 9 credits - Characterising
INSTRUMENTATION FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION - 9 credits - Characterising
MEASUREMENT METHODS OF BIOMEDICAL DATA FOR HEALTH AND WEALTH APPLICATIONS - 6 credits - Student's own choice
METHODS OF ELECTRICAL NETWORK ANALYSIS - 6 credits
MICROELECTRONICS - 6 credits - Student's own choice
MICROWAVE ENGINEERING - 6 credits - Student's own choice
MOBILE PROGRAMMING - 6 credits - Student's own choice
OPTICAL COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS - 6 credits - Student's own choice
POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS - 6 credits
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING - 6 credits - Related/Supplementary
SMART SENSORS AND FIELDBUS - 6 credits - Student's own choice

DIGITAL SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURES

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Academic Year of enrolment:

2014/2015

Academic Year of provision:

2015/2016

Degree:

Master's Degree Programme in ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

Disciplinary Sector:

Electrotechnics

Language:

Italian

Grouping type:

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

GUBIAN Paolo Professor

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Hours of individual study:

Foundations of logic circuits.
Useful, but not strictly prerequisites:
Introduction to microelectronics
Discrete math: set theory, basic combinatorial optimization

Educational Goals

Digital embedded systems are a pervasive element of modern information society. In most cases, embedded systems are complete embedded computers with volatile and permanent memories, processing units and peripherals and a true multitasking operating system. In some cases, they even represent entire networks of computers. The aim of this course is to achieve theoretical and practical knowledge about the structure, architecture and software contents of common high-complexity digital embedded systems such as smartphones and other modern portable devices.
Course contents:
Survey of the most important methodologies and design flows for complex digital systems, especially embedded systems.
Survey of the most common architectures of complex digital systems.
Survey of the most significant languages and development systems in the design of complex embedded digital systems.

Content

Introduction to complex digital system design
Review of microelectronics technology. VLSI design flow. Examples. Design styles, ASIC design. Intrinsic limitations of design tools. Review of some advanced system architectures. Synthesis of digital circuits: steps, formalisms. High-level synthesis. Sequential synthesis. Multi-level combinational synthesis. Synthesis tools.
Languages for digital system description
VHDL: review and advanced coverage. Examples of digital systems on VHDL. High complexity digital systems: review of C and C++ languages. The SystemC class library. Description of digital systems by means of SystemC.
Digital system architectures.
Review on architectures: instruction sets, pielining. Memory, virtual memory, caching. Input/output and peripherals. Parallelizing. Case studies: ARM embedded processor. Operating system structures. Case studies: Android, Linux.
Hardware-software codesign
Basic concepts. Tagged Signal Model (hints). Cosimulation: concepts and examples. Systems for the description of digital architectures: the PtolemyII system.

Extended Syllabus

Recommended Bibliography

There is no real textbook. Many specialized books are suggested during the course, but all the material needed to complete the exam is made available on the course website.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Assessment Methods

The student must solve a series of take-home exercises; this is followed by an oral discussion of the solutions.

Assessment:

Final Mark

Programme of Educational Activities

Start date of teaching period:

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

End date of teaching period:

Tuesday, December 22, 2015