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Hardware Software -Codesgin Embedded System Design / Integrated Circuits Design Lab Peiyi Zhao, Ph.D Web: Math and Computer Science Department Chapman University
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Contents
Digital design need software + hardware co-design
Digital processors and the programming languages for digital design
Tools and resource in the lab
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3. Digital design= soft ware + hardware co-design
Digital design is everywhere
communication,
consumer electronics,
defense,
aerospace, etc
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About 60 microcontrollers in your car from airbag controller to engine temperature controller.
6 billion microcontroller units were shipped in 2004, predicted to increase by 10%(Source: Instate.Inc market research ) each year from
Semiconductor annual revenue of 2004: estimated of $211.4 billion
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Moore’s law (observation): transistors on a chip doubles in every months. More and more transistors are put in one chip to enable complex functions you never dream 10 years ago
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Some of the design issues you may notice in daily life:
For microprocessor in laptop, the power consumption reaches 100 watts which nearly could cook an egg
Source: Intel
Other issues: security, etc.
The issues need to be solved by hardware/software co-design
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These complex processors need people to design and program, the power and security issues need people to research.
Digital design : programming skill + digital hardware knowledge = software + hardware co-design
“The performance of software systems is dramatically affected by how well software designers understand the basic hardware technologies at work in a system. Similarly, hardware designers must understand the far-reaching effects their design decisions have on software applications.” Source: John Hennessy, President of Stanford University;
David Patterson, University of California, Berkeley, President of ACM;
Our lab provides interdisciplinary training for software, hardware co-design.
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8. 2. Digital Processors and Programming Languages in Digital Design
Human being:
super low power, ultra speed amazing brain,
memory,
sense (eye, ear, etc)
Basic structure of processor:
central processing unit, CPU
input/output in computer ( keyboard, screen etc)
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What kinds of processors are there?
Microcontroller: put central processing unit, memory, input/output port in one silicon chip. Uses C or assembly language to program (related course: CPSC250)
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA): powerful prefabricated programmable digital integrated circuits. You can design a circuit on your computer and have it running on your desk in minutes. Using Verilog / VHDL to programming (related courses: CPSC365, CPSC252)
Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC): Using C/ Verilog/ VHDL programming language to design chip for better speed and power according to your specification and fabricate it (related course: CPSC465)
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The computer : multilevel hardware software perspective
Level 5 Program oriented language level CPSC 230/231, 350,353,354,402,408
Level 4 Assembly language level Assembly language CPSC 250
Level 3 Operating system level Operating system CPSC 380
Level 2 Instruction set architecture level Computer architecture CPSC 252
Level 1 Digital logic level Digital logic CPSC 365
Level 0 Integrated circuit level Integrated circuits CPSC 465
People interested in understanding how a computer really works must study all the levels.
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11. 3.Tools and resources in the lab
Instruments
Software
Special parts
Methods/skills
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Instruments
Waveform generator
Oscilloscope
Digital analyzer
Multimeter
Computers and gate arrays
Sun Blade server
Digilent FPGA boards
Microcontroller: Atmel STK 500
MIT Handyboard
Lego RCX board
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Design tool
Cadence
Synopsys
ModelSim
StudioAVR
C Codevision compiler
Xilinx XSE tool
Altera tool
Special parts
Sensors: light, pressure, temperature
Breadboards
LCD
Resistors, capacitors
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Design skill: Using the previous tools to
design and download different digital logic design to boards
or send to MOSIS to fabricate
abstract digital design level
Troubleshooting design
Breakdown large problem to small ones,
Isolate problem,
Create/use test bench,
Search error message/solution in data base, help manual, ask specialist questions, check tutorial, FAQ, user group, etc
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Student projects
Embedded system design
Security: Implement security design in FPGA
Low power research: low power circuits
Microcontroller
Handyboard Robot
Send Chips to MOSIS for fabrication (coming soon)
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16. Embedded Sys. Integrated Circuit Chapman University
Webpage:
Our department and college
More information on the related digital courses:
Peiyi Zhao, Assistant Professor
Department of Math and Computer Science,BK403
Chapman University
One University Drive, Orange, CA 92866
Phone:
Fax:
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