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NI-EHW Embedded Hardware Extent of teaching: 2P+1C Instructor: Schmidt J. Completion: Z,ZK Department: 18103 Credits: 5 Semester: Z Annotation:
The course brings basic laws that govern digital design and basic techniques to use them. It deals with both large and small scale systems. This is the base of advanced embedded systems, that profit from their specialized structure for effective computation and acceleration. Design of fast custom computing machines is discussed, including standardized means of internal communication, parallelism extraction and utilization in special structures and system architectures.
Lecture syllabus:
1. Time in digital circuits. Timing models, synchronous circuits 2. Time in digital systems. Clock domains. 3. Digital circuits. Delay and power at the circuit level, circuit scaling. 4. Digital signals. Signal integrity, signal standards. 5. Jitter and noise in timing and decision level, jitter reduction techniques, clocck management. 6. Powe estimation and reduction at the system level. 7. Latency and throughput, system radius (latency to transfer time ratio). Quatitative approach to system architecture. 8. Communications in small-radius systems. Hierarchical communication architectures. 9. Communication in large-radius systems. Advanced serial communication. Networks on a chip. 10. Parallel computation in dedicated hardware, computation scaling, optimality criteria. 11. Architecture scaling 12. System-level design and models. 13. Digital design workflow and decomposition. Seminar syllabus:
The seminars are project-oriented. The students take care of hardware parts in team project common with the NI-ESW course. A project is evaluated as a whole, yet each participant's contribution will be taken into account.Literature:
1. Gu, C. : Building Embedded Systems: Programmable Hardware. Apress, 2016. ISBN 9781484219188. 2. Barkalov, A. - Titarenko, L. - Mazurkiewicz, M. : Foundations of Embedded Systems. Springer, 2019. ISBN 3030119602. 3. Mohit, A. : Embedded System Design: Introduction to SoC System Architecture. Learning Bytes Publishing, 2016. ISBN 0997297204. Requirements:
BIE-ČAO or equivalent knowledge about electrical circuits.
The course is also part of the following Study plans:
Study Plan Study Branch/Specialization Role Recommended semester NI-TI.2023 Computer Science V 1 NI-TI.2020 Computer Science V 1 NI-SI.2020 Software Engineering (in Czech) V 1 NI-SPOL.2020 Unspecified Branch/Specialisation of Study VO 1 NI-ZI.2020 Knowledge Engineering V 1 NI-PB.2020 Computer Security V 1 NI-MI.2020 Managerial Informatics V 1 NI-TI.2018 Computer Science V 1 NIE-DBE.2023 Digital Business Engineering VO 1 NI-SPOL.2020 Unspecified Branch/Specialisation of Study PS 1 NI-WI.2020 Web Engineering V 1 NI-NPVS.2020 Design and Programming of Embedded Systems PS 1 NI-PSS.2020 Computer Systems and Networks V 1 NI-SP.2020 System Programming V 1 NI-SP.2023 System Programming V 1
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