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Code:321000
Module title:Programmable Circuits
Version:1.0 (11/2025)
Last update: 02.12.2025
Responsible person: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kästner, Wolfgang
w.kaestner@hszg.de

Offered in study course:Mechatronics for Manufacturing (B.Eng.) valid from the class 2026 ( elective core module)

Semester according to time table:SoSe (summer semester)
Module level:Bachelor
Duration:1 semester
Status: elective core module
Place where the module will be offered:Liberec
Language of Instruction:English

Workload* in SCH **
semester
hoursECTS
Credits
1
2
3
4
5
6

L
S
P
O
L
S
P
O
L
S
P
O
L
S
P
O
L
S
P
O
L
S
P
O
150
5
4.0


2
2
0
0


*Overall workload per module (1 ECTS credit corresponds to a workload of 30 hours)
**One semester credit hour (SCH) corresponds to a workload / class meeting of 45 minutes per week in a semester

Self study time in hours
total
subdivided into
105
80
Preperation of contact hours
25
Preparation of exam
0
Others


Learning and teaching methods:The methodical aspects of the topic will be communicated by lectures. Seminars and exercises as well as practical courses at laboratory serve for consolidation of knowledge.
Further information:The content and implementation of the module are the responsibility of the TU Liberec.
Person responsible on TUL:
prof. Ing. Ondřej Novák, Cs.C.
ondrej.novak@tul.cz


Exam(s)
Assessments Major exam (laboratory work)
 - 
 50.0%
Major written exam 180 min 50.0%


Syllabus plan/Content: Basic hardware modules in digital electronics
VHDL language
VHDL language
Laboratory equipment used in the subject
FPGA AMD, FPGA properties
Processors on the FPGA
ROM, EEPROM, CPLD circuits
Other types of FPGA circuits, SOC circuits, FPGA power consumption
FPGA reconfiguration
ASIC and FPGA codesign

Learning Outcomes:
Subject-specific skills and competences:The students get familiar with VHSIC hardware description language, modern families of programmable circuits and EDA tools, concepts and methodologies. They will learn how to use top-down and bottom-up design metodologies to design complex digital circuit.
The students are able to describe digital circuits in HD language, simulate them and implement them on an FPGA circuit.

Generic competences (Personal and key skills):The students are able to create and realize strategies for problem solving from the individual point of view or as a result of teamwork.
The students use approaches of system theory. The students evaluate their results and are able to present the results.

Pre-requisites:competence from following module (without burden of proof):
Digital Electronics
Optional pre-requisites:competence from module :
Advanced digital circuit design

Literature:Digital Design and ComputerArchitecture. (David Harris, Sarah Harris,)  ( DOI: 10.5555/2815529 )

Clive Maxfield. The Design Warrior´s Guide to FPGAs. 2004. ISBN 0-7506-7604-3.

IEEE. IEEE Standard for VHDL Language Reference Manual. IEEE Std 1076-2019. 2019, s. 1–673. Dostupné z DOI: 10.1109/IEEESTD.2019. 8938196.

AMD, INC. 7 Series FPGAs Configurable Logic Block User Guide (UG474). 2025. Dostupné také z: https://docs.amd.com/r/en- US/ug474_7Series_CLB.

AMD, INC. 7 Series FPGAs SelectIO Resources User Guide (UG471). 2018. Dostupné také z: https://docs.amd.com/v/u/en-US/ug471_7Series_SelectIO.