Degree | Type | Year |
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2500895 Electronic Engineering for Telecommunication | OB | 2 |
2500898 Telecommunication Systems Engineering | OB | 2 |
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There are no prerequisites. However, it is recommended for students to have previously taken the courses “Fundamentals of Computing” and “Theory of Circuis and Electronics”.
This is a basic training course, taught during the second academic year, first semester. Is the bridge between the courses “Theory of Circuits and Electronics” and “Fundamentals of Computing”, in the first year, and “Computer Architecture and Peripherals”, in the second year.
The objectives of this course are for students to understand the role of digital systems in the computer world, be capable of designing low-to-medium complexity digital systems using logic gates and reconfigurable devices, and understand that a computer is simply a digital system of a certain complexity.
In the last part of the course, methodologies based on "Process Unit – Control Unit (UP-UC)" architectures are addressed to solve digital systems of a certain complexity by introducing the basic concepts of these architectures both in their "wired" version (UC made with gates and logic blocks) and "microprogrammed" (UC based on ROM + sequencer). Finally a simple computer open source (RISC-V) is presented in order for the students to understand the concepts of process-unit, control-unit, instruction set, microinstructions, microorders and microprogramming and applying the previous UP-UC architectures.
Block 1: Combinational Circuits (CC)
Block 2: Sequential Circuits (SC)
Block 3: Process Unit-Control Unit (PU-CU) architecture and processors
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Exercise-based classes | 18 | 0.72 | 1, 6, 5, 7, 4, 9, 12 |
Face to face classes | 26 | 1.04 | 1, 2, 7, 4, 10, 11 |
Laboratory practices | 18 | 0.72 | 2, 5, 9, 12, 11 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Case study | 18 | 0.72 | 5, 4, 9 |
Laboratory practice assignments | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 6, 5, 7, 4, 8, 9, 12, 11 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Autonomous work | 39 | 1.56 | 5, 8, 9 |
Preparing and solving exercises | 32 | 1.28 | 1, 2, 10, 11 |
Preparing laboratory sessions | 30 | 1.2 | 9, 12 |
Videos viewing | 18 | 0.72 | 5, 7, 4, 8, 9 |
The subject is organized in three blocks. The materials offered through the Campus Virtual include a series of videos that student body must view before attending class and that contain the theoretical-practical knowledge needed for the design of digital systems, interactive self-correction exercises and a simulation environment. of digital systems.
The subject is taught in "classroom problems" mode. All face-to-face classes are treated as problem-based sessions. The classes are dedicated to solving questions and doubts in the videos, and cases proposed by the teacher. Student body must actively participate in these classes; these are not conventional "theory" classes. They take place in small groups (of the order of 40-50 students), an indispensable condition to reach the necessary degree of interactivity in a subject of eminently practical character.
Previous activities are complemented by laboratory practice where students design and simulate different parts of a simple processor which is finally implemented on a FPGA. To physically implement the circuits, a design environment for programmable logic devices (INTEL-ALTERA) is used. Students will become familiar with the concepts of schematic capture, functional simulation, temporal simulation, and the description of complex digital systems using hardware description languages (VHDL).
Tutoring sessions may be individual or in small groups and will be done on demand and in coordination between each teacher and the related students. There may also be open tutoring sessions for all interested students that may be proposed by the teaching staff; but these will require prior submission to the corresponding forum of the Virtual Campus (CV) those specific questions about concepts or exercises that must be addressed in order for the teachers to plan and carry out that tutoring properly.
The following transversal skills are addressed and assessed during the course:
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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3 partial test and/or final test | 50% | 8 | 0.32 | 1, 2, 6, 5, 7, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
Exercises delivering | 20% | 8 | 0.32 | 5, 7, 4, 8, 9 |
Laboratory practices | 30% | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 3, 7, 4, 8, 9, 12, 11 |
This course does not include single assessment.
a) Assessment activities
Student assessment includes the following activities:
The mark of the course by continued assessment (CA) is obtained from:
according to the formula: CA = PT · 0.5 + LT · 0.3 + Pb · 0.2
where PT = (PT1+PT2+PT3)/3
To pass the course by continued assessment (CA) the following conditions must be met:
b) Assessment activities: scheduling
Dates of the assessment tests and the submission of exercises are publishedin the Virtual Campus (VC) and may be subject to changes in programming due to unforeseen eventualities. Any modification will be reported through this platform.
It is important to bear in mind that no assessment activities will be permitted for any student at a different date or time to that established, unless for justified causes duly advised before the activity and with the lecturer’s previous consent. In all other cases, if an activity has not been carried out, this cannot be re-assessed.
c) Recovery process
The evaluation activity 1 corresponding to the theory can be recovered in the final test.
If PT < 5 or LT < 5 after retaking these new tests, the final score of the course will be the lowest number between CA and 4.5.
Activities 2 and 3 (delivery of exercises and viewing of videos before attending the class) which corresponds to 20% of the final grade and activity 4 (laboratory practices) which corresponds to 30% of the final grade cannot be recovered.
d) Grades review
Grades obtained by students in each test are published in the VC. Once the grades are published, students will be informed of the procedure to follow to review their exam. Students must request, through the VC, an exam review, and will receive a call with the day and time to do it through TEAMS.
Any student who does not follow this procedure, within the time frame established, may not request a new review.
e) Special grades
f) Irregularities committed by the student, copy and plagiarism
Notwithstanding other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, and in accordance with the academic regulations in force, assessment activities will receive a zero whenever a student commits academic irregularities that may alter such assessment. Assessment activities graded in this way and by this procedure will not be re-assessable. If passing the assessment activity or activities in question is required to pass the subject, the awarding of a zero for disciplinary measures will also entail a direct fail for the subject, with no opportunity to re-assess this in the same academic year.
Irregularities contemplated in this procedure include, among others:
g) Assessment of students who followed the subject last year but do not successfully passed it
Students who completed and passed the laboratory practices in the previous course but did not pass the course, may choose not to repeat them again during the current academic year. In that case, the laboratory practices grade (LT) will be 5, regardless of the grade reached the previous year.
The list of students who can choose this option will be published at the beginning of the course in the VC. If, anyway, the student wants to make the laboratory practices again, he/she must communicate it by mail to the practice Coordinator.
If a student has committed irregularities (copies/plagiarism) in any evaluation activity in a previous call of the subject he will not have the right to have his practices validated (if he had approved them).
From the second matriculation and if the student has the approved practices and choose to validate them, the student can choose that the evaluation system is:
final grade = 0.5 * final test + 0.3 * grade of the practices of the previous course (a 5) + 0.2 * note previous course exercises (maximum a 5)
If the student fails he has a second chance in this alternative 2) which would be to do again a final exam of the whole subject on the dates of the final recovery, maintaining the same conditions for practices and exercises (maximum a 5).
To be eligible for this differentiated evaluation (2),repeating students must request it from the person responsible for the subject by email no later than 15 days after the start of classes.
In the laboratory session we will use the software Altera Quartus II 9.0 WebEdition. Students will be required to install this software, which does not require any license.
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 311 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 312 | Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 313 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 331 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 332 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 311 | Catalan/Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 312 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 313 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 314 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 315 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 316 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 317 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 318 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 319 | Catalan/Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |
(PLAB) Practical laboratories | 320 | Catalan/Spanish | first semester | morning-mixed |