Areas of Competence: Knowledge and Understanding; Use, application and generation of knowledge; Communication and cooperation; Scientific self-understanding / professionalism.

The students have understood the fundamentals of the Hardware Description Language VHDL. They know the principle how to design combinatorial as well as sequential circuits and how to implement a finite state machine in VHDL. They are able to apply this knowledge to design regular sequential circuits like Counters or shift Registers as well as circuits for finite state machines. The students know how to partition a System into control and data plane and how to implement the corresponding circuits in VHDL.They know how to set up a testbench and are capable of simulating VHDL designs as well as how to set up simple testing circuits to a specific VHDL design on a development board.

Within the lab exercises, the students have the possibility to apply their knowledge by implementing given problems on a development board and to validate their implementation approach.

The students work together in small teams in the lab. Therefore they are capable of structuring lab exercises into different work packages, to discuss and solve problems, which occur throughout the implementation process, within the team and they are able to document their lab exercise results in a systematic and structured way.