Course presentation: CADT Computer Aided Design Techniques 4 CTI, 1 st semester Doru Todinca in Courses presentation Course web page: in Teaching, TPAC (now only in Romanian)

Motivation The goals of the course: to perform computer aided design of: 1.Hardware systems 2.Telecommunication systems We will focus on two projects/assignments: –VHDL modeling of a hardware system –Modeling a telecommunication system using the OMNeT++ network simulator VHDL assignment is mandatory and will ensure the grade for the lab Telecom assignment can provide bonus points for the written exam, and even to replace the exam !

First goal: designing hardware systems Lectures: teaching the VHDL language: –Simulation mechanism –Behavioral modeling –Structural modeling –Circuits: registers, MUX-es, finite state machines (FSM), etc Labs: –VHDL modeling and simulation of a design from previous years: Booth or Robertson multiplier, other arithmetic devices, or a μP or μC

Second goal: telecom systems Lectures: –Quality of Service (QoS) and QoS differentiation in Internet –Architectures for QoS in Internet: Integrated services (IntServ), Differentiated services (DiffServ) –Techniques: scheduling, admission control, routing, congestion control, queue management, etc. Labs: –Learning the OMNeT++ network simulator: open source network simulator based in C++ –OMNeT++ model of a part of a DiffServ architecture, or of a scheduling or queue management algorithm, etc –Collection and interpretation of the simulation results

Structure of the course 2 hours lectures, 2 hours lab per week Final grade: 50% lab, 50% written exam Web page: ml ml The course is aimed for students from both hardware and software directions