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Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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This course gives you a complete insight into the modern design of digital systems fundamentals from an eminently practical point of view. Unlike other more "classic" digital circuits courses, our interest focuses more on the system than on the electronics that support it. This approach will allow us to lay the foundation for the design of complex digital systems.
You will learn a set of design methodologies and will use a set of (educational-oriented) computer-aided-design tools (CAD) that will allow you not only to design small and medium size circuits, but also to access to higher level courses covering so exciting topics as application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) design or computer architecture, to give just two examples.

Course topics are complemented with the design of a simple processor, introduced as a transversal example of a complex digital system. This example will let you understand and feel comfortable with some fundamental computer architecture terms as the instruction set, microprograms and microinstructions.

After completing this course you will be able to:

   * Design medium complexity digital systems.
   * Understand the description of digital systems using high-level languages such as VHDL.
   * Understand how computers operate at their most basic level (machine language).

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Approx. 27 hours to complete

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Digital Design
Digital Circuit Design
Boolean Algebra
Processor Design

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 27 hours to complete

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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is a public university located in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. International in its outlook, it is fully consolidated within its local surroundings, and offers quality education in close association with research activity, the transfer of scientific, technological, cultural and educational knowledge, the promotion of its human potential and the responsible management of available resources.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week1

Week 1

2 hours to complete

All you need to know to start the course

Click on "v More" to read the purpose of this module We have collected here everything you need to know before starting the course. This week is divided into three sections: <ul><li>The first is the one you're reading about now and includes a number of general explanations about how the course will run and about the virtual machine you should install on your computer to answer the different quizzes . </li><li>The second (Previous knowledge: A review) presents a series of tests you can use to check your level of knowledge about numbering systems and the use of pseudocode to describe algorithms. </li><li>The third block contains the first real topic of the course: What Digital Systems are?</li></ul>

2 hours to complete

1 video (Total 2 min), 10 readings

2 hours to complete

Previous knowledge: A review

2 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 36 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

3 hours to complete

What Digital Systems are?

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This module is an introduction to Digital Systems. Here you will find:<ol><li>A set of videos_L covering issue 1 and the corresponding exercises, </li><li>Two videos_P introducing the processor that we will design along the course, and</li><li>Some video-based explanations; a wiki and some FAQs about how VerilUOC_Desktop tool functions. You will have to use VerilUOC_Desktop in the next module</li></ol> Read the "Lesson Index" in the "Index and PDF files" section and the "README" in the VerilUOC_Desktop section for more information.

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 71 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Combinational Circuits (I)

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3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 101 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

1 hour to complete

VerilUOC_Desktop tools

Click on "v More" to read the purpose of this module From this week you will need to use VerilUOC_Desktop to do some of the exercises in the quizzes. VerilUOC_Desktop is a software package based on Logisim, enhanced with a number of modules to enable:<ul><li>Enter Boolean equations (BoolMin),</li><li>Enter digital circuits and check them according the problem statement (VerilCirc), and</li><li>Enter chronograms (time-charts) and check that they are correct (VerilChart).</li></ul>This section contains two videos explaining how these three tools work. By now you only need to use VerilCirc and BoolMin, so if you are pushed for time, you might postpone VerilChart for later. Obviously, it is impossible to cover in these two videos all eventualities you can find while working with VerilUOC_Desktop tools. In case of doubt, look at the VerilUOC_Desktop wiki, look at the FAQs or post your problems in the forums. There are specific forums for VerilCirc, BoolMin and VerilChart.

1 hour to complete

2 videos (Total 33 min), 3 readings

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Combinational circuits (II)

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We continue the study of combinational circuits. While in the previous module we were working on the classical design techniques of combinational circuits, this one is focused on other issues such as a brief introduction to computer aided design tools (CAD tools), or the direct synthesis of combinational circuits from its algorithmic description. Read the "Lesson index" for more information. To solve the exercises in this module VerilUOC_Desktop is needed. Remember that the "VerilUOC_Desktop" section in module 2 contains all the information you need about this tool.

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 84 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

5 hours to complete

Arithmetic components + Introduction to VHDL

Click on "v More" to read the purpose of this module Arithmetic circuits are an essential part of many digital circuits and thus deserve a particular treatment. <ul><li> The first part of this module presents some implementations of the basic arithmetic operations. Only operations with naturals (non-negative integers) are considered. </li><li>The second part of this module introduces the basics of VHDL with the goal of providing enough knowledge to understand its usage throughout this course and start developing basic hardware models.</li></ul>

5 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 167 min), 9 readings, 1 quiz

10 videos

L4.1 Arithmetic blocks27mLecture 4.2 (1outof2): Introduction to VHDL - Lexicon, syntax and structure8mLecture 4.2 (2outof2): Introduction to VHDL - Lexicon, syntax and structure12mLecture 4.3 (1outof2): Introduction to VHDL - Sequential sentences10mLecture 4.3 (2outof2): Introduction to VHDL - Sequential sentences12mLecture 4.4 (1outof2): Introduction to VHDL - Concurrent sentences12mLecture 4.4 (2outof2): Introduction to VHDL - Concurrent sentences8mL4.2 Short introduction to VHDL I (OLD VERSION)22mL4.3 Short introduction to VHDL II (OLD VERSION)18mL4.4 Short introduction VHDL III (OLD VERSION)32m

9 readings

IMPORTANT - README10mLesson index10mPDF files10mLesson index (OLD VERSION)10mPDF files (OLD VERSION)10mIMPORTANT - README10mNo lecture about the processor in this module . Next video will be P5.1.10mAbout the exercises (README)10mSolved exercises - Arithmetic circuits10m

1 practice exercise

Practice quiz 430m

Week5

Week 5

2 hours to complete

Sequential circuits (I)

Click on "v More" to read the purpose of this module This is the first module dedicated to Sequential Circuits (Digital Systems with Memory).

2 hours to complete

7 videos (Total 79 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

Week6

Week 6

2 hours to complete

Sequential circuits (II)

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 59 min), 3 readings, 2 quizzes

Week7

Week 7

3 hours to complete

Sequential circuits III and Finite State Machines

Click on "v More" to read the purpose of this module This module deals with two topics:

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 81 min), 4 readings, 2 quizzes

Week8

Week 8

2 hours to complete

Implementation of digital systems

2 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 47 min), 2 readings, 2 quizzes

1 hour to complete

COURSE SUMMARY AND FAREWELL

1 hour to complete

3 readings

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TOP REVIEWS FROM DIGITAL SYSTEMS: FROM LOGIC GATES TO PROCESSORS

by SNMar 20, 2020

Pretty awesome, the course gives you a good understanding of all basic concepts and the practice, extra and graded problems make you intimately familiar with its applications.

by RTJul 21, 2020

This was my 4th online course and I am pretty sure this was my best experience. Everything was covered in detail and yet very precisely. Thanks to both coursera and UAB for this course.

by BSJun 6, 2017

This course is useful to bridge the gap between academics and industry to some extent. The course is worth while

by PPAug 15, 2020

Questions are good. It's better if they provide your way of solving the quiz questions and practice questions

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Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors

Digital Systems: From Logic Gates to Processors

About this Course

Skills you will gain

Instructors

Elena Valderrama

Jean-Pierre Deschamps

Lluis Terés

Merce Rullan

Joaquín Saiz Alcaine

David Bañeres

Juan Antonio Martínez

Offered by

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

All you need to know to start the course

Previous knowledge: A review

What Digital Systems are?

Combinational Circuits (I)

VerilUOC_Desktop tools

Combinational circuits (II)

Arithmetic components + Introduction to VHDL

Sequential circuits (I)

Sequential circuits (II)

Sequential circuits III and Finite State Machines

Implementation of digital systems

COURSE SUMMARY AND FAREWELL

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Instructors

Elena Valderrama

Jean-Pierre Deschamps

Lluis Terés

Merce Rullan

Joaquín Saiz Alcaine

David Bañeres

Juan Antonio Martínez

Offered by

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

All you need to know to start the course

Previous knowledge: A review

What Digital Systems are?

Combinational Circuits (I)

VerilUOC_Desktop tools

Combinational circuits (II)

Arithmetic components + Introduction to VHDL

Sequential circuits (I)

Sequential circuits (II)

Sequential circuits III and Finite State Machines

Implementation of digital systems

COURSE SUMMARY AND FAREWELL

Reviews

TOP REVIEWS FROM DIGITAL SYSTEMS: FROM LOGIC GATES TO PROCESSORS

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