TITLE      Advanced VHDL Topics; Top-Down Design Methodologies
COURSE #   AZNU224K
STATUS     Active
DURATION   6.0 Hours
SPONSOR    IBM Education and Training
AUDIENCE   This course is intended for engineers, scientists, and instructors
           who are familiar with digital system design.  Using VHDL in large
           scale design will be emphasized.
ABSTRACT
                This course will discuss advanced VHDL topics for description
           and design of digital systems.  The use of standard logic types,
           common description styles for controllers, registers and busses
           also will be discussed.  He will illustrate design methodologies
           based on the VHDL hardware description language. Participants will
           be shown how VHDL can be used in top-down partitioning of a large
           design into smaller subcomponents, simulating and testing
           individual subcomponents, and bottom-up wiring of subcomponents for
           the formation of a complete design.  Describing controllers,
           busses, register units and interconnection of these components will
           be shown.  An example, which includes several bi-directional
           busses, shifters, logic units, registers, IO lines, and a complete
           controller, will be used in this presentation.
OBJECTIVE  Upon completion of the course, participants will learn:
            -   Design of large scale systems with VHDL
            -   Top-down partitioning
            -   Description of data components and bus structures in
                VHDL
            -   How to use VHDL for description of controller circuits
            -   How to complete system design by wiring its
                subcomponents

            Friday, March 29, 1996
INSTRUCTOR  PRESENTER:  Zainalabedin Navabi is an adjunct professor of
            electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern
            University.  Dr. Navabi is the author of the textbook, VHDL:
            Analysis and Modeling of Hardware,  1993 McGraw-Hill.  For the
            last 15 years Dr. Navabi has been involved in the design,
            definition and implementation of Hardware Description
            Languages.  He has written numerous papers on the application
            of HDLs in simulation, synthesis and test of digital systems.

            He started one of the first full VHDL courses at Northeastern
            University in 1989.  Since then he has conducted many short
            courses and tutorials on this subject in the United States and
            Japan.  He is also a consultant to CAE companies.  Dr. Navabi
            received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1981.  He
            is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IEEE Computer
            Society, ACM, ASEE and Euromicro.