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COE424 Digital Systems

[3–0, 3 cr.]

This course is an introduction to digital systems design and covers timing concepts, area-delay tradeoffs, pipelining, and synthesis. Register transfer notation and VHDL are introduced to model, simulate, and verify designs. Topics include field-programmable gate arrays, technology mapping, layout synthesis, and routing.

Prerequisite: COE323 Microprocessors & 3rd year standing.