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Topics @TYH :- 4G LTE Tutorial, GVIM editor, Smart-Phone, Cloud Computing

Verilog is a programming language specifically designed to program hardware at Register Transfer Level (RTL).  Link to Verilog Tutorial or Verilog examples home page:

‘IF-ELSE’, FOR loop, ‘case’ statement and synchronous counters, $Readmemh code to read hex values, function Declaration, file read write ‘readmemh’ in verilog test-bench (tb). Verilog code for Clock Crossing. (setup, hold, meta)

Verilog testbench example for clock domain crossing.
Binary to Gray code conversion code. Inter/Intra delay.

Half-adder, Full-adder, Tri-state buffer and tb.  Digital counter enable/disable logic in rtl and tb

Shift micro-ops, Random number and use of $fdisplay.
Memory implementation and test-bench

Resources

Digital design resources
Clock Domain Crossing Discussion with
rtl & testbench example.

Rate change(asynchronous) FIFO design and fifo depth calculation.

Half-adder, Full-adder, 4-bit binary adder , adder-subtractor circuit, overflow with rtl & testbench. Binary Multiplier, Parity error TT
Arithmetic, logical, shift micro-operations. Stack organization, LIFO, RPN discussion.
VHDL rtl - Synchronous flip-flop, latch, shim to improve timing and counter example. Events, transactions, delays.

RTL coding guidelines. ICG cell, Assertions, $assertk, levels. Chandle
Digital design Interview questions.
FPGA Interview. FPGA flow.
Guide to Graduate studies in US

Pipeline vs. Parallel processing.
Computer Organization, CPU, ALU, Memory
Apps layer

RF basics.
RF fundamentals discussion
Signal to Noise ratio (SNR), NoiseFactor(F), Cascaded F, NoiseFigure (NF)
Dynamic Range (DR), Minimum Detectable Signal (MDS),
Intermodulation (IM) distortion, Second order (IP2)
Third order  (IP3) intermodulation products, IP3 (Third Order Intercept) plot,
Desensitization, Cross-modulation, Spurious outputs, Gain control, Noise

Antenna selection - parameters, details

Digital Logic fundamentals -

Digital basics tutorial

Binary number discussion, 1 and 2 complement discussion,

Binary arithmetic, Signed Magnitude, overflow, examples

Gray coding, Binary coded digital (BCD) coding, BCD addition

Digital logic gates basic (AND, OR, XOR, NOT) and derived (NAND, NOR and XNOR). Drive XOR from NAND gates. Drive XOR from NOR gates

Discussion of Boolean Algebra with examples.

Duality Principle, Huntington Postulates, Theorems of Boolean Algebra - discussion with examples,

Boolean Functions,

Canonical and Standard Forms, Minterms and Maxterms
Sum of Minterms, Product of Maxterms or Canonical Forms,
Karnaugh map or K-map discussion 2, 3, ,4 and 5 var’s
Prime Implicant and Gate level minimization examples.

Tech in your Hand

Smart phone high tech hardware
In this section you will find details on hardware components inside some of today’s smart phones.
CPU, OS, RAM, Apps, Pixels, SD mem

Cloud computing Next Internet revolution.
Interrupt controller and VIC’s.

LTE Tutorial
Long Term Evolution (LTE), data rates, CAR networks, seamless mobility, Evolved Packet core (EPC), SAE etc. LTE vs CDMA vs WiMax, mVoIP.
Mobility Management Entity (MME),
Serving Gateway SGW.
Packet Data Network (PDN) SAE Gateway
Enhanced Packet Data Gateway (ePDG)
LTE Interfaces 2 ,3, X2 N X2AP
Multiple antenna techniques in 4G - AAS, MIMO, Diversity.
LTE Access tech, LTE PHY layer, Generic Frame structure, alternative frame

CMOS Introduction, Digital ASIC’s design process, Circuit parasitics, Stray capacitances, Crosstalk, Ground Bounce

Python.

Python is a scripting language based on Object Oriented Principles with extensive support for engineering requirements. Python examples




File read, ‘sys.argv’, classes, global variables functions,
File write, command line, classes in file writes, glob module
Python conditional statements, convert string to hexadecimal  value, strip off white space and convert hex to signed values.
Advanced program to read file, filter text, conversion to HEX, conversion from Hexadecimal to Signed Magnitude
Advanced python code to cover UNIX shell commands, read lines from a text file, ‘sysargv’ command line operations, use of class and multiple functions. 
Read binary files, Calling classes using main function, generate diamond pattern. Python error’s with complete code examples:- TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (1 given) TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting. AttributeError:  ** instance has no attribute **

Topics covered in Verilog RTL, Digital Design, Digital Basics, RF and Python Scripting.  

Logical Shift Right code, Logical Shift left (LSL) code, Circular Shift Right (CSR) code and Circular Shift Right (CSR) code.

Verilog Tutorial :- Introduction, operators, initial, clk & rst, blk vs non blk, cond if, counter, file ops, read bin, for loop, functions, testbench, random, shift micro-ops, memory, generate, assertions.

gvim Editor

GVIM Introduction - How to use gvim for basic operations.

GVIM Advance - regular expressions to delete empty lines, merge empty lines, drop blank characters, search numbers, search and replace, duplicate columns, revert changes in time, shell commands, make, reverse order of lines, markers, set syntax, spell check.