Synchronous design of digital systems

   - Understand the usefulness of synchronous digital circuits compared to asynchronous circuits (predictability, robustness against jitter and random events).
-  Know and implement synchronous circuit design techniques.
-  Know how to determine the essential parameters of such a circuit in order to understand its limitations (particularly time parameters).
-  Be able to choose a circuit architecture to meet a constraint (operating frequency, size, power consumption).
  -  Design, on paper and in VHDL, state machines to describe the behaviour of digital circuits.

The course consists of 5 hours and 15 minutes of lectures and 17 hours and 30 minutes of project work. It is assessed by means of a project report and the validation of milestones during the project sessions.
    The lectures present the concepts described in the objectives from a theoretical perspective.
The project allows students to put these concepts into practice by designing a digital system in VHDL that uses a thermometer. Students must study the thermometer's datasheet to develop state machines that can communicate with this component.

 - Knowledge of combinational and sequential electronics.
- Knowledge of low-level FPGA architecture as covered in the FPGA Technology course (N8EE03C)
- Proficiency in VHDL