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CSD intended learning outcomes and organisation

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Learnng outcomes

Our main learning objective is that upon completion of the course, you will be able to:

Systematically specify, plan, develop, simulate, verify, report, present and prototype simple digital circuits and systems, using state-of-the-art digital programmable devices and microcontrollers, CAD/EDA software tools and laboratory instruments, by means of cross-curricular competences and PBL methodology.

Course organisation

The course workload is 150 hours or 6 ECTS. This is a short presentation.

We propose you to tackle CSD in a very simple way: attend all classes and design projects every week by means of this planning schedule and project-based learning (PBL) techniques. The recommended study time is 10 h per week including classes and labs. Be aware that in CSD practising cross-curricular skills applied to project solving is as important as the specific content.

This is the syllabus of CSD as a book table of content. The main topics that can be found in books on fundamentals of digital circuits and systems are covered in our course.

These are video recordings to clarify specific topics, concepts and proceeding when using EDA tools and designing circuits.

This is CSD assessment scheme, and also an archive of exams, projects, assignments and questions. 

You are encouraged to participate actively in class, in labs, by email or meet and help as much as possible your mates working together in cooperation as if you were already working in real-world engineering companies.

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Let it be a fair play: commitment to academic integrity at the UPC.

EDA software resources:

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3
            PROTEUS VSM     minilog.exe     Notepad++      
VHDL C language
EDA tools for CPLD/FPGA synthesis and simulation:
Intel Quartus Prime / ModelSim Intel FPGA Starter Edition		 IDE tools for microcontrollers: Microchip (PIC18F/16F/Atmega) MPLABX / XC8
            WaveForms               DE10-Lite USB Blaster driver    

NOTE: CSD software can be download to your portable or home computer in Windows 11. You will access our shared Google Drive. Ask us for Proteus Cloud Licence and upgrade the software to the latest version available (currently Proteus 8.17 SP5).

Hardware resources:

FPGA and microcontroller training boards will complete our project design phase on prototyping. They will facilitate learning instruments, equipment and measurement software. 

Browsing digsys:  

Colour scheme for easy browsing this site:

Chapter 1 highlighted projects.
  Lectures on chapter 1 organised in one-hour sessions.
  Chapter 1 other sample projects.
Chapter 1 units focused on explaining specific concepts.
  Chapter 2 highlighted projects.
Lectures on chapter 2 organised in one-hour sessions.
  Chapter 2 other sample projects.
    Chapter 2 units focused on explaining specific concepts.
Chapter 3 highlighted projects.
  Lectures on chapter 3 organised in one-hour sessions.
  Chapter 3 other sample projects.
  Chapter 3 units focused on explaining specific concepts.
Laboratories organised in two-hour sessions.
  Project design sequence 1-2-3-4-5-6
Project specification options
Analysis methods and design plans
References to main menu tabs.
Cross-curricular skills.
Notes, remarks, comments.
Tutorial recordings in YouTube channel.
Project submission due dates, exams and questionnaires.
  Content under revision or in preparation.
Optional materials to go ahead if you have interest in learning extra content.

 

Optionally, you can show and archive your projects and reflections by means of constructing your ePortfolio.