Diploma in Advanced Digital Systems Design

Course Focus

This course is designed with the support of the VLSI and Embedded Systems Industry.

Aware of the real need for a multidisciplinary approach, the program prepares students with in-depth and comprehensive knowledge of the underlined technologies involved in Embedded Systems and VLSI Design. The program is focused on both theoretical and concrete aspects. It aims at:

• Enhancing the skills in designing VLSI systems to match the ever increasing demand of this cutting-edge technology.
• It also provides intensive training in VHDL / VERILOG and contemporary EDA tools for FPGAs and ASICs.
• Developing competencies, at system level design for the development of Embedded Systems, based on strong basics of complementary subjects, such as electronics, computer science, energy conversion and management, automatic control, telecommunications and networks.
• Developing the system approach through integrated projects to master specific methods and tools applied to the following domains: aeronautics, space, automobile or multimedia.

The training covers all hardware, software and control issues of Embedded Systems and VLSI Design within an integrated system based perspective.

Course Structure

Batches are conducted in September every year
1 year (1500 hours), Lectures 2 hrs/day, Practical 5 hrs/day.

Course Fee

Rs. 1,04,000.00 (To be paid in two installments by Demand Draft drawn in favour of “ICIT Pvt. Ltd., Pune”, within 10 days from selection for admission).

Eligibility

BE / B. Tech. (Electronics, Electronics & Telecommunication, Instrumentation, Electrical), M.Sc. (Electronics & Instrumentation), or equivalent. Final year students may apply.

Course Syllabus

Topics (Semester 1) - Click on topic to see details	No. of hours
Digital Design & Processor Design Binary arithmetic, Boolean algebra, Logic Gates Combinational circuits, sequential circuits Advanced digital design, processor design Data path & control unit design State machine Design	120 hrs
CMOS VLSI Design and layout CMOS Process and Device technology VLSI Design Principles Hierarchy Stick diagram & Layout Design Testing and Verification PSPICE Logic Simulation Scaling of MOS circuits Study of CMOS circuits and their electrical, voltage & timing characteristics	170 hrs
HDL Language Detailed Study of verilog - Language Constructs Coding for Simulation and Synthesis Coding Guidelines, Design Interception levels Behavioral, Register Transfer, Gate, Device and Process level Advanced Verilog, Creating and interfacing PLI applications Introduction to VHDL	250 hrs
Verification Concept of verification Study of HVL - system Verilog Study of different test bench architectures Script driven test benches System level testing concepts Reuse of test bench components Coverage driven verification	90 hrs
Implementation	30 hrs
PLD Architecture Fundamentals of Programmable Logic PLD's (PLA, PAL) Architecture of popular CPLD and FPGA families like Xilinx '9500' series, xc4000 & Spartan 3E.	90 hrs
Study of Bus Architecture Ethernet, MAC Protocol PCI Bus architecture FIREWIRE AMBA bus AXI Protocol, AHB protocol	20 hrs
Telecommunication Study of Communication protocols Wireless communication	20 hrs
Total	790 hrs
Topics (Semester 2) - Click on topic to see details	No. of hours
Programming Languages for Embedded Systems and Concepts Object oriented design Study of Advanced C Concepts Object oriented concepts Software development life cycle SDLC Embedded Systems	250 hrs
Real Time Operating Systems RTOS Concepts 8051 Microcontroller based RTOS Configuration PIC Microcontroller based RTOS Configuration ARM Chip based RTOS Configuration	50 hrs
Embedded System Programming C++ Core Java Embedded Java Understanding different architectures of embedded Java (J2ME,Personal Java, Embedded Java, JADEs LEAP) Understanding of Embedded Java Tools Application development	100 hrs
Linux Basics + Operating System + Device Drivers Processor Architecture, process scheduling, Memory management Inter process communication Linux internals Systems programming in Linux Shell scripting File API, Process API Multithreading, Driver Development	210 hrs
8/16/32 bit microcontroller and interfacing Study of architecture Interfacing concepts for new devices Assembly language Programming Embedded C programming ARM processor 32 bit architecture introduction Instruction set ARM Assembly language Programming Embedded C programming, and Application development	120 hrs
Embedded System Hardware Design Study of data sheets Selection of components Power supply design Microcontroller based application hardware design RTLinux application implementation Introduction to RTOS related tools such as C-spy debugger, Kernel activity monitors	40 hrs
Digital Signal Processing  (ELECTIVE) LTI Systems Convolution Correlation Fourier transform Z transformation DSP system implementation MAC, Harvard Architecture Pipelining, DSP processor Architecture TMS320 Series/ADSP2106 Data Compression Techniques (JPEGs, MPEGs)	30 hrs
Wireless Communication Protocols  (ELECTIVE) Overview of wireless Communications Path Loss and Shadowing Capacity of Wireless Channels Multiuser Systems Cellular systems and infrastructure based wireless networks	40 hrs
Soft Skills Communication Technical writing	20 hrs
Total	860 hrs
Project Work	30 hrs
Total	1800 hrs