Course presentation: CAD Computer Aided Design 4 CTI, 1st semester Doru Todinca www.cs.upt.ro/~todinca in Courses presentation staff.cs.upt.ro/~todinca/CAD_2017.ppt doru.todinca@cs.upt.ro Course web page: www.cs.upt.ro/~todinca in Teaching, CAD, or TPAC (in Romanian)

Motivation The goals of the course: to perform computer aided design of: Hardware systems Telecommunication systems We will focus on two projects/assignments: VHDL modeling of a hardware system Modeling a telecommunication system using the OMNeT++ network simulator One assignment is mandatory and will ensure the grade for the lab The other assignment can provide bonus points for the written exam, and even to replace the exam !

First goal: designing hardware systems Lectures: teaching the VHDL language: Simulation mechanism Behavioral modeling Structural modeling Circuits: registers, MUX-es, finite state machines (FSM), etc Labs: VHDL modeling and simulation of a design from previous years: Booth or Robertson multiplier, other arithmetic devices, or a μP or μC

Second goal: telecom systems Lectures: Quality of Service (QoS) and QoS differentiation in Internet Architectures for QoS in Internet: Integrated services (IntServ), Differentiated services (DiffServ) Mobile communications Techniques: scheduling, admission control, routing, congestion control, queue management, handover,etc. Labs: Learning the OMNeT++ network simulator: open source network simulator based in C++ OMNeT++ model of a part of a DiffServ architecture, or of a scheduling or queue management algorithm, etc Collection and interpretation of the simulation results

Structure of the course 2 hours lectures, 2 hours lab per week Final grade: 50% lab, 50% written exam Web page: staff.cs.upt.ro/~todinca/cad/index.html The course is aimed for students from both hardware and software directions Lectures and labs are held by Doru Todinca.