IL2234 Digital Systems Design and Verification using Hardware Description Languages 9.0 credits

The course teaches digital systems design and verificaiton using hardware description language. Additionally, the course includes simulation and synthesis of digital systems designs targeting FPGAs.

• Review of elementary digital design concepts and their modeling and verification in HDL.
• Review of sequential elements, timing concepts, and their applications and modelling and verification in HDL.
• Design of finite state machines (FSMs) and datapaths.
• Modeling and verification of FSM and datapaths in HDL.
• Advanced digital systems concepts.
• Advanced verification concepts: constrained random stimuli generation, assertions, coverage, formal verification.

After passing the course, the student should be able to

• design digital systems to fulfill given functional requirements
• model and simulate digital systems in hardware description languages (HDL)
• verify digital systems using HDL
• synthesize digital systems and analyze results using EDA tools targetting field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

• Knowledge in basic digital technology, 7,5 credits, corresponding to completed course IE1204.
• Basic knowledge of the structure of microprocessors and instruction execution, 7,5 credits, corresponding to completed course IS1200.
• Basic knowledge of electric circuits, 7,5 credits, corresponding to completed course IE1206 or EI1110.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• LAB1 - Laboratory work, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• LAB2 - Laboratory work, 1.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
• TENA - Digital exam, 4.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• TENB - Digital exam, 0.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Ahmed Hemani

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Overlaps completely with IL2203 and partially with IL1331 and IL1332.