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Session 2548 VHDL and Small Format Color Displays ”Video Images Make Learning Fun” Jeffrey S. Lillie

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Rochester Institute of Technology requires a course in Principals of Design Automation for Electrical Engineering Technology and Computer Engineering Technology students. At the completion of the course, students are expected to know the basics of coding for synthesis, test bench techniques, modelsim simulator, and the Xilinx tool flow for targeting complex programmable logic devices (CPLD’s) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGA’s).

A quick survey of the typical college student showed that they love video images. It could be a video clip captured with a digital camera, a digital video playing on their laptop, or digital images captured with their camera phone. This paper reviews and discusses how an FPGA platform was selected and integrated with a QVGA(320x240) color display. It details how an eight lab sequence was developed to allow the students to accomplish a project goal of playing a video image sequence on the QVGA display. This paper also illustrates how additional ABET outcomes such as applied technical problem solving, technical writing, configuration management, team dynamics, communications, and ethics were integrated into the course content.

Introduction Rochester Institute of Technology requires a course in Principals of Design Automation for Electrical Engineering Technology and Computer Engineering Technology students. At the completion of the course, students are expected to know the basics of coding for synthesis, test bench techniques, modelsim simulator, and the Xilinx tool flow for targeting complex programmable logic devices (CPLD’s) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGA’s). The prerequisites are Digital System Design and a formal, structured programming course.

Course Description An advanced course in the VHSIC Hardware Descriptive Language (VHDL). The course provides an in-depth coverage of the language and describes the VHDL design environments that will be used for synthesis and verification. Topics include the behavioral, dataflow, and structural modeling of both combinatorial and sequential logic, design methodologies, synthesis and optimization. An IEEE-1076 standard VHDL development system will be extensively utilized to synthesis VHDL for PLD, CPLD and FPGA applications. The prerequisites are Digital System Design and a formal, structured programming course. Class 3, Lab 2, Credit

Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 1 Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education

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Lillie, J. (2005, June), Vhdl And Small Format Color Displays Paper presented at 2005 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--15238