Course Catalog 2007-2008

TKT-1566 DIGITAL DESIGN III, 5 cr
Digital Design III

Courses persons responsible
Jarmo Takala

Lecturers
Jarmo Takala

Implementations
  Period 1 Period 2 Period 3 Period 4 Period 5 Summer
Lecture - 2 h/week 2 h/week - - -
Exercise - 2 h/week 2 h/week - - -
Exam  
(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
After passing the course, the students are able to design applications-specific hardware structures containing parallelism and optimize the structures for low power consumption.

Content
Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Data-flow graph representations and loop and iteration bounds  folding of multirate systems  solving inequalities 
2. Pipelining, parallel processing, and combined pipelining and parallel processing  Low-power optimizations    
3. Critical path, folding, unfolding, and retiming  Distributed arithmetic    
4. Systolic arrays       

Requirements for completing the course
Written exam and completed compulsory assignment.

Evaluation criteria for the course

  • Written exam 70%, compulsory assignment 30%

  • Used assessment scale is numeric (1-5)

    • Study material
    Type Name Auhor ISBN URL Edition, availability... Exam material Language
    Book VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation K. K. Parhi 0-471-24186-5     No  English 
    Lecture slides           No  English 

    Prerequisites
    Code Course Credits M/R
    SGN-2010 SGN-2010 Digital Linear Filtering I 5 Recommendable
    TKT-1210 TKT-1210 Digital Design II 5 Mandatory
    TKT-1212 TKT-1212 Implementation of Digital Systems 8 Mandatory
    TKT-1400 TKT-1400 ASIC Design I 5 Recommendable

    Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

    Additional information about prerequisites
    TKT-1210 and TKT-1212 are alternative.

    Remarks

    The course is lectured only every other year. It is not lectured in 2007-2008.

  • Partial passing of course must be in connection with the same round of implementation.

  • The course is suitable for postgraduate studies.

  • Course will not be lectured in the academic year 2007-2008.

    • Distance learning

  • ITC utilized during the course

    • - In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
    - In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
    - In compiling exercise, group or laboratory work
    - In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc

    Scaling
    Methods of instructionHours
    Lectures 48
    Exercises 60
    Assignments 26
    Total sum 134

    Additional information related to course
    The course is given only every other year.

    Correspondence of content
    TKT-1560 Digital Design III

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    Last modified 08.06.2007
    Modified byOlli Vainio