Course Topics

This new lab was built in 1998 for the Computer Engineering program. The lab is based on an instructional computer, called RESA, and on the hardware design software of Xilinx. Course topics include:

• Computer aided hardware design.
• Using an FPGA.
• Design of a simple RISC processor on an instructional computer. Acquaintance with basic components of the computer architecture: main memory, main bus, bus protocol.