Digital Systems and Signal Processing

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Present results of design work in a formal report
• Address novel design challenges by choosing appropriate analysis and design methods

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Compress the digital representation of an analogue signal and protect it from transmission errors
• Create a digital representation of an analogue signal, which is suitable for use in communication systems
• Understand the the characteristics of stochastic signals and the ideas of sampling, quantisation and coding within the context of communications signals
• Develop working knowledge of state-of-the-art commercial software tools for digital system design
• Develop CPLD and FPGA implementations of combinational and sequential digital systems
• Describe state machines of moderate complexity in SystemVerilog, simulate and synthesise into hardware
• Build and debug a digital circuit
• Design testbenches to verify your design

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Sequential digital system design for implementation in CPLDs and FPGAs
• Stochastic signals and their signal processing in communication systems, including sampling, quantisation and coding
• The principles of Design for Test and apply them in practice

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.