Course detail

VLSI Digital Integrated Circuits Design and VHDL

FEKT-BPC-NDIAcad. year: 2025/2026

Advanced design of digital systems in VHDL language. Practical design of sequential systems and state machines. Design of peripherals and communication interfaces SPI, UART, etc. Implementation of arithmetic operations in the VHDL language. As part of the course, students will work on a project that will be implemented into an FPGA circuit. Great emphasis will be placed on the design methodology, the design of individual blocks and the verification of the whole design. The project will be solved in groups and must then be defended in the form of a final report during the exam period

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Lukáš Fujcik, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Microelectronics (UMEL)

Entry knowledge

Student should know:
- complete the BPC-DIO course
- knowledge of fundamentals of combinational and sequential circuits, how those circuits manually design
- describe those circuits by using VHDL
- derive block diagram from VHDL model
- knowledge of state machines and their design
- knowledge of methodology of synchronous circuit design
- work with XILINX design tool

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Requirements for completion of a course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course.
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Aims

The course follows BDIO course that is learned in second year. Subject is much more complex and students obtain new information from digital circuit design area, especially how to use proper methodology to design advanced digital circuits. Goal of the subject is how students can design any task autonomously, such as design of block structure, block specification, block design, verification of design and final implementation into the target device to meet entire specification.
Student obtains this knowledge:
- design of advanced combinational and sequential digital circuits by using VHDL,
- define proper conditions and specifications according to designed digital circuit,
- work with documentation and design any digital circuit according to this specification,
- implementation of designed digital system into the programmable circuit,
- verification and evaluation of designed digital system.

Study aids

electronic texts, presentations, video tutorials

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Frank Bruno, Guy Eschemann, The FPGA Programming Handbook - Second Edition: An essential guide to FPGA design (EN)
Kang, Yusuf Leblebici, Chulwoo Kim, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, 2019, ISBN 978-9353165093 (EN)

Type of course unit

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Lukáš Fujcik, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Digital integrated ciruits.
Bipolar, CMOS and BiCMOS technologies.
Standard familly IC's.
ASICs, programmable devices.
Basic functional blocks if digital ICs.
Design and simulation tools.
Electric-level and logic-level simulation.
Placement and routing, padding.
VHDL.
New principles of IC design and manufacturing.
Manufacturing test and diagnosis, testability.
Micromechanical structures.
Economical aspects of design and production.

Exercise in computer lab

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Lukáš Fujcik, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Configuration of design environment, demonstration.
Electrical-level simulation.
Logic simulation, critical path.
Worst-case analysis, hasards.
Basic funtional blocks of digital ICs.
Standard logic famillies.
Programmable devices.
Layout and routing.
VHDL - structure and synopsis.
VHDL - basic static and dynamic structures.
VHDL - complex example.
Testability, design for test.
Micromechanical structures.

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

VLSI Digital Integrated Circuits Design and VHDL

Type of course unit