Escuela Superior de Ingenieros

Staff:
Dr. Miguel Angel Aguirre Echánove
Dr. Jonathan Noel Tombs
Dr. Fernando Muñoz Chavero

 Course "Digital Microelectronics Lab" is an optional course in the 4th level in Telecommunication Engineering title and in 2nd level in Electronic Engineering title. In this page all the information related to the projects is exposed.

The course consists of a development and implementation of a complete microelectronic project made by teams of THREE students.
The complete project have to be described in a HDL and have to be finished with a ready-to-run prototype, using a FPGA board. All the information about the course is given (in spanish) at the begining of the course Telecommunication Engineering and Electrónic Engineering.

The course site is at the assigned room in the compunting centre of our school.

METHODOLOGY

The course pursues to give the student, added to the normal exercise of the contents of the microelectronics course, an experience on self-organising of the work inside the team, experience on oral presentations and take decisions in "open" problems.

During the course-time two documents must be done, draft project and project, and two oral presentations. A guide (in spanish) about how to do it is proposed. At the end of the course the temas has to provide:

•  A CD-ROM with the VHDL source code, Written documents, Presentations and a Brief description written in English.
• Prnted versions of each document

USEFUL INFORMATION USED IN THIS COURSE

Manuals for the FPGA's:

• FPGA Xilinx 4000XL series
• FPGA Xilinx SPARTAN2 series
• FPGA Xilinx Virtex Series

• XS40 Board in versions: 1.2, 1.3 y 1.4. Manual v1.2 ,  Schematics v1.2 and User manual and Schematics v1.4
• XSA-50 Board: User manual and schematics v1.2
• UNSHADES System: general Introduction, user manual and schematics v1.0
• Digilent Board. Manual and Schematics.

• Dallas DS1820 user manual

STUDENT PROJECTS DEVELOPED IN PREVIOUS YEARS
 

• Course year 1999/2000: Page in Spanish and Page in English.
• Course year 2000/2001: Page in Spanish and Page in English.
• Course year 2001/2002: Page in Spanish and Page in English.
• Course year 2002/2003: Page in Spanish and Page in English.
• Course year 2003/2004: Page in Spanish and Page in English.

TRAINING LAB PROJECTS FOR BEGINING THE COURSE (in spanish)

• Lab1
• Lab2
• Lab3

Here, the popular layout editor program from Etienne Sicard can be downloaded. Other PC programs can be also downloaded.

Microwind, version Aug 27th, 2002

Some shareware utilities for practising with VHDL

A design for bidirectional dialog between Parallel Centronics port and XS40 Board

 Important Dates

1st oral presentation for Telecommunication Engineering: Th, March 1 of 2001
1st oral presentation for Electronic Engineering: We, March 14 of 2001

  SEE VIRTEX PROJECTS DEVELOPED IN OUR DEPARTMENT (UNSHADES project)

Acknowledgements (agradecimientos):

and the Xilinx University Program (XUP).
Gently donated the software Foundation 3.3i licenses and the development  board XS40.

Technical support and development of the XS40 board.
 
 
 

Following these links you'll find our personal web sites: Miguel A. AguirreJonathan N. Tombs