Here is a laboratory workbook filled with interesting and challenging projects for digital logic design and embedded systems classes. The workbook introduces you to fully integrated modern CAD tools, logic simulation, logic synthesis using hardware description languages, design hierarchy, current generation field programmable gate array technology, and SoPC design. Projects cover such areas as serial communications, state machines with video output, video games and graphics, robotics, pipelined RISC processor cores, and designing computer systems using a commercial processor core.

InhaltsangabeTutorial I: The 15 Minute Design.- FPGA Development Board Hardware and I/O Features.- Programmable Logic Technology.- Tutorial II: Sequential Design and Hierarchy.- FPGAcore Library Functions.- Using VHDL for Synthesis of Digital Hardware.- Using Verilog for Synthesis of Digital Hardware.- State Machine Design: The Electric Train Controller.- A Simple Computer Design: The ?P 3.- VGA Video Display Generation using FPGAs.- Interfacing to the PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse.- Legacy Digital I/O Interfacing Standards.- FPGA Robotics Projects.- A RISC Design: Synthesis of the MIPS Processor Core.- Introducing System-on-a-Programmable-Chip.- Tutorial III: Nios II Processor Software Development.- Tutorial IV: Nios II Processor Hardware Design.- Operating System Support for SOPC Design.

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