IC/FPGA Design P2-S2: Mastering Verilog for Design and Verification 🎓

Course Headline: Consistency between Circuit Diagram, RTL Code, and Waveform

Course Description:

Embark on a quick mastery journey through engaging examples and hands-on coding exercises. This comprehensive online course, with video content totaling less than 10 hours, equips you with the skill to achieve consistency between any given circuit schematic, Verilog code, and waveform. Upon completion, you'll be adept at deciphering one from the other, ensuring seamless design and verification processes.

Course Highlights:

📚 Digital IP/IC Design Flow Coverage: Dive into the essential steps of designing digital Intellectual Property (IP) and Integrated Circuits.

🧰 Quick Review of Digital Fundamentals: Revisit key concepts that lay the foundation for IC design, ensuring a solid understanding before advancing.

🛠️ "Tool Setup" Module: Learn how to install essential tools like Verilator and GTKwave for your designing needs.

✏️ Verilog Syntax Mastery: Get familiar with the syntax used in both design and verification, which is crucial for effective coding in Verilog.

👁️‍🗨️ Designing Basic Logic Blocks: From designing basic gates to more complex structures like MUX, decoders, and one-hot decoders.

🕒 Sequential Logic Design: Understand the design of synchronous-DFF as well as asynchronous-DFF and apply this knowledge in practical scenarios.

🚀 Building Useful Blocks: Create essential blocks such as counters, edge detectors, shift registers, sequence checkers, and sync_fifo for targeted applications.

📡 Finite State Machine (FSM) Design: Learn to design FSMs with the necessary theory and implementation techniques.

🔄 Basic Testbench Creation: Develop testbenches to verify your designs against their intended behavior.

🚫 Pitfall Avoidance: Recognize common mistakes that can occur in synthesis, such as incomplete sensitive lists, latch hazards, and multi-driven or combination logic loops, and learn how to avoid them.

❓ Real-World Application Assignments: Apply your knowledge through hands-on practice with complex tasks like z-scan implementation and sequence check using an FSM.

Course Structure:

Chapter 2: Digital Fundamentals 📚

• Review of digital basics to prepare for advanced topics
• Setting up your tools for a smooth design experience (Verilator & GTKwave)
• Mastering common Verilog syntax for both design and verification
• A step-by-step guide to designing digital building blocks

Practical Exercises & Projects:

• Engage with 12+ coding exercises that cover the course content.
• Work on 3 comprehensive projects that reflect real-world applications.

Theory & Application:

• The path from MOS transistors to complex system-on-chip (SOC) design and beyond.
• In-depth exploration of hardware function blocks and architecture, including FSMs, pipelines, arbiters, CDC, sync_fifo, async_fifo, ping-pong, and pipeline hazard mitigation strategies.

Final Projects:

• Implement a SHA-256 algorithm with a simple interface.
• Enhance your design with an APB/AXI interface for the SHA-256 algorithm.
• Design a 2D DMA controller with APB/AXI interface for a practical, real-world application.

Why Take This Course?

This course is designed to be the comprehensive guide you need to master IC and FPGA design, focusing on the practical use of Verilog for both design and verification. With a balance of theoretical knowledge and hands-on practice, this course ensures that by the end of it, you will not only understand the principles behind digital IC and FPGA design but also have practiced these principles in developing your own projects.

Your Instructor:

As a seasoned course instructor with extensive experience in the field, I am committed to providing you with an enriching learning experience. I'll guide you through what you need to know (the "what"), how to do it (the "how"), and most importantly, why it's done that way (the "why). My goal is to empower you to excel in this field by applying your knowledge to real-world scenarios, ensuring you are well-prepared for the demands of modern digital design.

Join Me on This Learning Journey! For more detailed information about each chapter and what you can expect from the course, please visit my homepage on Udemy where I outline the complete curriculum. Don't miss out on this opportunity to elevate your skills in the world of IC and FPGA design! 🚀

Remember, this is Chapter 2 of a comprehensive digital IC and FPGA design course, with advanced knowledge and skills that are essential for anyone aspiring to enter or excel in this field. Get ready to dive into the world of digital design and verification with Verilog! 🛠️🔬💻