Welcome to the wiki for Design of Digital Circuits for Spring 2018

The class provides an introduction to the design of digital circuitry. The class covers the basics of the technical foundations of gates. An introduction to hardware description languages and their use in the design process follows.

This class will be your first approach to Computer Architecture. You will study the design of digital circuits in order to:

• understand the basics,
  
• understand the principles (of design),
  
• understand the precedents.
  

Based on such understanding, you will:

• learn how a modern computer works underneath,
  
• evaluate tradeoffs of different designs and ideas,
  
• implement a principled design (a simple microprocessor),
  
• learn to systematically debug increasingly complex systems,
  
• hopefully develop novel, out-of-the-box designs.

The focus is on basics, principles, precedents, and how to use them to create/implement good designs.

Thursday, 13:15-15:00, in HG F7 (Overflow room: HG F5)
Friday, 13:15-15:00, in HG F7 (Overflow room: HG F5)

Prerequisites: None.

• Mailing List: digitaltechnik@lists.inf.ethz.ch (sent to instructor and TAs)