ECE4063 Large scale digital design
Faculty of Engineering
ECE4063 Large scale digital design is a level 4, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Engineering. It isn't offered in 2020. It needs ECE2072 and ECE2131.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ECE4063
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After ECE4063
No unit lists ECE4063 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibitions: ECE4604. ECE5063, ECE5604
Prerequisites: Or (ECE2061 or TRC2500) and ECE2072
Overview
The unit aims to develop a fundamental understanding of the performance, specification and fabrication of large scale digital circuits. You will become experienced at the design, simulation, verification and debugging of complex large scale digital circuits using a Hardware Description Language (HDL) and current CAD tools with FPGA development boards. Two group design projects will be undertaken: one involving an HDL using FPGA devices and another involving custom VLSI CMOS design and simulation
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for ECE4063.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Describe the fabrication processes used for producing CMOS VLSI circuits.
- 2
Assess the performance of a VLSI layout in terms of speed, power and area.
- 3
Predict and manage the metastable failure rate of crossing clock domains.
- 4
Predict and optimise the delay in multiple paths of a VLSI design.
- 5
Apply pipelining and parallelism to digital designs to improve their performance.
- 6
Design, implement and debug a complex digital design using HDL as part of a team.
- 7
Generate professional documentation for a team design project.
Workload and teaching
2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory/practice classes and 7 hours private study per week
Where it fits
ECE4063 is part of 3 areas of study in the 2020 handbook.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Tom Drummond
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Patrick Ho
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ECE4063?
You need ECE2072 and ECE2131 before you enrol. Enrolment rules also apply.
When is ECE4063 offered?
ECE4063 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
Which majors and minors include ECE4063?
ECE4063 is part of Electrical and computer systems engineering; Electrical engineering; and Robotics and mechatronics engineering.