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 โ€“Altera 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, โ€œDesign 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, โ€œAnalog VLSI Signal and Information Processing โ€œ, McGraw Hill, 1994.
5 Roger Woods, John McAllister, Dr. Ying Yi, Gaye Lightbod, โ€œFPGA-based Implementation of Signal Processing Systemsโ€, Wiley, 2008.
6 Steve Kilts, โ€œAdvanced FPGA Design,โ€ Wiley Inter-Science,2007