CS 210 Digital Systems Design (Autumn 2021)

This is a core course for second-year undergraduate students in Computer Science and Engineering.
The course will be conducted in an online mode.

• Course Credits: 4

• Lectures: 3 hours a week

• Lab: 3 hours a week

Course Objectives

• Understand the key principles underlying the design of Digital Systems

• Gain practical skills in designing and building complex digital systems using HDLs and modern tools

• Understand how various digital system modules fit together to make a basic computer.

Timings

• Mondays 2pm-3pm

• Wednesdays 3pm-4pm

• Thursdays 4pm-5pm

• LAB: Tuesdays 3pm-5pm

Course Textbooks

• Digital Design with an introduction to the Verilog HDL (5th edition or 6th edition)
  by M. Morris Mano and Michael Ciletti
  

• Free Range VHDL (Online book freely available here)

Reference Books

• Digital Design: Principles And Practices (4th Edition)
  by John F. Wakerly

• The VHDL Cookbook
  by Peter J. Ashenden (Online book freely available here)

• VHDL: Programming by Example
  by Douglas Perry

Video Lectures

Video tutorials for the Autumn 2020 CS 210 LAB are available on YouTube. (Link to Youtube Playlist)

Course Contents and Lecture Plan

• Module 1: Introduction to the design of Digital Systems: the What, Why and How

• Module 2: Number Systems and Binary Numbers

• Module 3: Boolean Algebra, Logic Gates, Gate-level Minimization

• Module 4: Implementation of Digital Circuits (CMOS Logic)

• Module 5: Combinational Logic Design

• Module 6: Sequential Logic Design

• Module 7: Building blocks of a modern computer

• Module 8: Modern-day digital design (trends, technologies and practices)

Lab Topics

• Hardware Description Languages and Tools

• Basics of VHDL

• Combinational Logic Design

• Sequential Logic Design

• System design

Evaluation (weightage)

• Quizzes (15%)

• Assignments (10%)

• Lab exercises (30%)

• Exams (45%)