ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

The course aims to introduce students of the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering in the issues related to the design and development of electronic systems. The term "system" is understood as a set of passive and active electronic components, even complex, suitably interconnected and resident on one or more electronic cards, in turn housed in one or more electronic units. The course, in particular, aims to illustrate the design flow that allows to pass from the transistor level to complex electronic system.

1. Introduction
2. Boolean logic
3. State machines
4. Subsystems and arithmetic processing circuits
5. Design flow
6. Design metrics of VLSI system
7. Design principles of Printed Circuit Boards
8. Simulation and synthesis with VHDL
9. Introduction to microcontrollers

1. M. Olivieri, Elementi di Progettazione dei sistemi VLSI (volume I e II), Edises, 2005
2. N. Weste, D. Harris, CMOS VLSI Design (3rd edition), Addison Wesley, 2004.
3. J. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, B.Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits (2nd edition), Prentice Hall, 2003.
4. Comer, Digital Logic & State Machine Design (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, 1995.
5. H. Johnson, M. Graham, High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic, Prentice Hall, 1993
6. J. Davies, MSP430 Microcontroller Basics, Elsevier, 2008.