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Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Design synthesizable SystemVerilog modules and integrate combinational and sequential logic to form complete digital subsystems.

  • Implement an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) capable of performing core operations and basic arithmetic for calculator functionality.

  • Develop a finite state machine (FSM) to control complex system modes (calculator modes), user inputs, and operation sequencing.

  • Simulate, verify, and debug SystemVerilog designs to ensure functionality of the full calculator system.

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February 2026

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1 assignment

Taught in English

There are 3 modules in this course

This comprehensive, hands-on course equips learners with the practical skills needed to design real hardware using SystemVerilog. Through a structured four-module progression, you will master the fundamentals of RTL development starting from basic modules and data types, moving into advanced constructs like structs, enums, and generate blocks, and culminating in the design of a fully functional digital calculator. Each module includes hands-on exercises, simulation-based assignments and guided coding practice

This course is designed for engineering students, FPGA beginners, RTL designers, and software developers transitioning into hardware design. It is also ideal for embedded engineers, verification interns, and anyone preparing for digital logic, FPGA, or ASIC roles that require SystemVerilog proficiency. Learners should have a basic understanding of logic gates and binary arithmetic, along with some familiarity with digital circuits or introductory HDL concepts. No prior SystemVerilog experience is required, but comfort with technical problem-solving will help accelerate learning. By the end of the course, learner will be able to analyze how to model combinational and sequential logic, construct reusable parameterized modules, implement finite-state machines and write clean and scalable RTL. Along the way, you’ll apply real engineering practices such as hierarchical design, clean coding standards, testbench construction, and modular verification. By the end of the course, you will have built a complete modular calculator system designed, implemented, simulated, and tested entirely in SystemVerilog.

This module introduces the foundations of SystemVerilog RTL design, including how to write modules, use ports and parameters, work with common data types, and model fixed-size static arrays. Students will install the Quartus Prime software and build their first hardware blocks and begin implementing the arithmetic core of the calculator.

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5 videos2 readings1 peer review

5 videosTotal 37 minutes
  • Quartus Prime Installation and Testing2 minutes
  • Understanding Modules, Ports, and Instantiation9 minutes
  • Introduction to SystemVerilog’s Data and Numeric Types9 minutes
  • Practical Guide to SystemVerilog Arrays for FPGA Design7 minutes
  • SystemVerilog Arrays and Iteration10 minutes
2 readingsTotal 10 minutes
  • Welcome to the Course: Course Overview5 minutes
  • Fundamental SystemVerilog Circuit Design5 minutes
1 peer reviewTotal 20 minutes
  • Hands-on-Learning: Core Architecture & Module Foundations20 minutes

Learners explore dynamic arrays, queues, and associative arrays (testbench focus), create custom composite types using typedef, enum, and struct, and use SystemVerilog operators to implement logic and arithmetic. The calculator project is extended with an ALU and operation selector.

What's included

6 videos1 reading1 peer review

6 videosTotal 51 minutes
  • Dynamic Arrays, Queues & Associative Arrays9 minutes
  • SystemVerilog Operators8 minutes
  • Custom Types: Typedef, Enum, Struct7 minutes
  • Custom Data Types in SystemVerilog12 minutes
  • Combinational Logic: Continuous Assignment9 minutes
  • Continuous Assignments and Multiplexers in SystemVerilog6 minutes
1 readingTotal 5 minutes
  • Design and Verification of a Synchronus First In First Out (FIFO)5 minutes
1 peer reviewTotal 20 minutes
  • Hands-on-Learning: Arithmetic Datapath & Control Logic Foundations20 minutes

Students learn how to design combinational circuits using assign, build sequential circuits using always_ff (registers, counters, pipelines), and implement decision logic using if and case. They then build the calculator's state machine and control logic.

What's included

6 videos1 reading1 assignment2 peer reviews

6 videosTotal 52 minutes
  • Sequential Logic: Modeling sequential logic7 minutes
  • Combinational Decision Logic, State Machines, and Priority Encoders9 minutes
  • Loops in SystemVerilog14 minutes
  • Functions in SystemVerilog13 minutes
  • SystemVerilog Functions and Recursion8 minutes
  • Course Wrap-Up2 minutes
1 readingTotal 5 minutes
  • Instruction-Level Abstraction (ILA): A Uniform Specification for System-on-Chip (SoC) Verification5 minutes
1 assignmentTotal 25 minutes
  • SystemVerilog Tutorials: Hardware Design & Verification25 minutes
2 peer reviewsTotal 80 minutes
  • Hands-on-Learning: Wrap Up the Calculator Architecture20 minutes
  • Project: Designing Scalable and Reusable SystemVerilog Modules Using Parameters and Generate Constructs 60 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

SystemVerilog RTL design in this course means describing how digital hardware behaves and connects using modules, signals, and control logic at the register-transfer level. The focus is on writing synthesizable RTL and then checking that behavior through simulation, debugging, and modular verification.

You would use it when you need to turn digital logic ideas into hardware blocks that can be reused, connected, and tested as part of a larger subsystem. In this course, that includes modeling combinational and sequential logic, building parameterized modules, and controlling operation flow with finite-state machines.

It sits in the build-and-test stage of hardware development, where a design idea becomes a set of connected modules with clear interfaces and behavior. In this course, that means defining structure and data handling, implementing the RTL, and then simulating and verifying how the full design behaves.

Writing software focuses on sequences of instructions, while SystemVerilog RTL design describes hardware structure, signal flow, and clocked behavior. That is why the course emphasizes modules, ports, combinational and sequential logic, and state machines rather than general-purpose program flow.

A basic understanding of logic gates, binary arithmetic, and digital circuits or introductory HDL concepts is helpful before starting. No prior SystemVerilog experience is required, but comfort with technical problem-solving will make the hands-on coding and debugging easier.

The course centers on SystemVerilog and uses Quartus Prime for hands-on coding and simulation practice. It mainly uses synthesizable RTL design and simulation-based verification with testbenches.

You practice defining modules and interfaces, choosing data types and arrays, building combinational and sequential logic, and organizing control with finite-state machines. You also simulate designs, write testbenches, debug behavior, and verify that connected hardware blocks work together as a digital subsystem.

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