Credit Points: 2

Prerequisites: Computer Organization

Software tools for hardware design: schematic and hardware description language (VHDL), logical simulation.

Design implementation: synthesis, place and route.

Hardware implementation and debugging by a development platform which contains a field programmable hardware (FPGA),

memory and an interface to a personal computer.

Design, implementation and debugging of a simple RISC processor (including data and control paths).

Writing and executing an assembly program on the CPU design.

The Lab's grade is based on preliminary reports, post lab assignments and two short quizzes.

For more details visit www.eng.tau.ac.il/~marko