COMPUTER USAGE: Students use Mentor Graphics design tools and VHDL to implement a pipelined processor. PROJECT: The class is a quarter long team project to design a pipelined processor. Understand the ...

Prior knowledge needed: Knowledge of assembly and C Programming, Digital Logic Design, and basic computer architecture. Students should have a first course in each of these subjects. The corresponding ...

basic computer architecture. Lab emphasizes the use of software equation entry design tools, the use of a schematic entry, and the use of a logic simulation design tool. Lab assignments are ...