Hardware description languages: Verilog, VHDL

Teaching content

• Motivation/advantages of using hardware description languages
• Classification in the design systematics of electronic systems
• Learning the syntactic basic elements of VHDL and Verilog
• Specific properties of VHDL and Verilog
• Differences and similarities of the two hardware description languages
• Simulation of designs
• Synthesized modeling
• Design examples

Internship
 

• Implementation of a task in VHDL or Verilog
• Simulation and synthesis of a system using Xilinx design tools
• Implementation on an FPGA platform