Digital hardware

Digital hardware (and digital systems) form a broad sub-field of hardware engineering.

Important concepts

• Digital circuit
  • Logic gate
  • Multiplexer
  • Register
  • Arithmetic logic unit
  • Computer memory
• Hardware description language
  • Verilog
  • VHDL
  • SystemVerilog
    • Universal Verification Methodology
  • High-level synthesis
  • Hierarchical design
• Finite state machine and processors
  • Control path
  • Datapath
• Computer architecture
  • Computer organisation
  • Instruction set architecture
  • Bus
• VLSI
• Development platforms
  • System-on-chip
  • Field-programmable gate array
• Design verification
  • Simulation
  • Testbench