AP4001 Applications Specific Integrated Circuits Syllabus:
AP4001 Applications Specific Integrated Circuits Syllabus โ Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
๏ท To prepare the student to be an entry-level industrial standard ASIC or FPGA designer.
๏ท To analyze the issues and tools related to ASIC/FPGA design and implementation.
๏ท To understand basics of System on Chip and Platform based design.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO ASICS, CMOS LOGIC AND ASIC LIBRARY DESIGN
Types of ASICs โ Design flow โ CMOS transistors โ Combinational Logic Cell โ Sequential logic cell -Data path logic cell โ Transistors as Resistors โ Transistor Parasitic Capacitance- Logical effort.
UNIT II PROGRAMMABLE ASICS, PROGRAMMABLE ASIC LOGIC CELLS AND PROGRAMMABLE ASIC I/O CELLS
Anti-fuse โ static RAM โ EPROM and EEPROM technology โ Actel ACT โ Xilinx LCA โAltera FLEX โ Altera MAX DC & AC inputs and outputs โ Clock & Power inputs โ Xilinx I/O blocks.
UNIT III PROGRAMMABLE ASIC ARCHITECTURE
Architecture and configuration of Spartan / Cyclone and Virtex / Stratix FPGAs โ Micro-Blaze / Nios based embedded systems โ Signal probing techniques.
UNIT IV LOGIC SYNTHESIS, PLACEMENT AND ROUTING
Logic synthesis โ ASIC floor planning- placement and routing โ power and clocking strategies.
UNIT V HIGH PERFORMANCE ALGORITHMS FOR ASICs/ SOCs. SOC CASE STUDIES
DAA and computation of FFT and DCT. High performance filters using delta-sigma modulators. Case Studies: Digital camera, SDRAM, High speed data standards.
TOTAL:45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course students will be able:
CO1: To architect ASIC library design
CO2: To develop programmable ASIC logic cells
CO3: To design I/O cells and interconnects
CO4: To understand logic synthesis, placement and routing
CO5: To identify new developments in SOC and low power design
REFERENCES:
1. Douglas J. Smith, HDL Chip Design, Madison, AL, USA: Doone Publications, 1996.
2. Jose E. France, YannisTsividis, โDesign of Analog โ Digital VLSI Circuits for Telecommunication and Signal Processingโ, Prentice Hall, 1994.
3. M.J.S.Smith, โ Application โ Specific Integrated Circuitsโ, Pearson,2003.
4 Mohammed Ismail and Terri Fiez, โAnalog VLSI Signal and Information Processing โ, McGraw Hill, 1994.
5 Roger Woods, John McAllister, Dr. Ying Yi, Gaye Lightbod, โFPGA-based Implementation of Signal Processing Systemsโ, Wiley, 2008.
6 Steve Kilts, โAdvanced FPGA Design,โ Wiley Inter-Science,2007