Digital Design with HDL - selected topics

• Review of Hardware Description Languages
  (motivation for using HDL's, available HDL's, coding rules, code checks)
• VHDL design for synthesis
  (design flow, synthesizeable VHDL, VHDL to hardware mapping, synthesis constraints) 
• Introduction to HDL verification
  (definitions, verification methods)
• Power saving methods
  (high level methods on architecture and implementation level)
• Intellectual property issues
  (IP sources, IP quality issues, legal issues)