1. Course presentation: CAD Computer Aided Design
4 CTI, 1st semester
Doru Todinca
in Courses presentation
staff.cs.upt.ro/~todinca/CAD_2016.ppt
Course web page: in Teaching, CAD, or TPAC (in Romanian)

2. 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 !

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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