This module provides the knowledge and skills to analyse, design and implement advanced digital electronic systems, including pipelined reduced instruction set...

This module provides the knowledge and skills to analyse, design and implement advanced digital electronic systems, including pipelined reduced instruction set microprocessors, from the transistor and logic gate level and using structural and behavioural description using the SystemVerilog hardware description language.

Students will be introduced to advanced logic design, hardware description languages (HDL) and logic synthesis tools, and taught the technical skills to design, simulate, analyse and verify complex digital circuits.

On completion of this course, students should be able to:

Understand the basic operations of CMOS technology for both combinational and sequential logic circuits;
	Analyse the operations of flip-flops and latches;
	Explain the concept of datapath/controller partitioning;
	Describe the operation of FPGAs, PLAs and PALs, and how they are programmed;
	Understand the need for testing and fault models;
	Design fault-oriented test pattern sequences and carry out fault simulation of digital circuits;
	Describe structured design techniques for testing, built-in self-testing and boundary scanning;
	Design (using the SystemVerilog hardware description language), and understand the operation of, complex sequential systems, such as microprocessors

Aims: The module will explore the ethical basis of economics, with special reference to applied microeconomics and environmental policy analysis. Key skills...

Aims: The module will explore the ethical basis of economics, with special reference to applied microeconomics and environmental policy analysis. Key skills developed include critical thinking (in understanding the theory), active listening (in lectures and tutorial classes), written materials (through the essays), information skills (in preparing essays) and oral/visual presentation (in tutorial classes).

Suitable for: Final year Economics (L100 / L101 / L102), Econ/Geog (LL17), Econ/Stats (LG13), Phil/Econ (VL91), PPE (4V86) and BASc students, subject to satisfying the pre-requisites.

Prerequisites: the main prerequisite is ECON0013: Microeconomics or equivalent.

Assumed knowledge: Basic laws of supply and demand, and the way they enter into the price mechanism, as well as elementary macro-economics. familiarity with the concepts of economic equality and the criteria for the efficient allocation of resources in the economy would also be useful.