Advanced Digital Systems Design

Design of logic machines. Finite state machines, gate array designs, ALU and control unit designs, microprogrammed systems. Hardware design of digital circuits using SSI and MSI chips. Introduction to probability and statistics. Application of probability and stochastic processes for cache and paging performance. Laboratories incorporate specification, top-down design, modeling, implementation and testing of actual digital design systems hardware. Simulation of circuits using VHDL before actual hardware implementation. Laboratory. Prerequisite: ENCE 2101.