AP4001 Applications Specific Integrated Circuits Syllabus:

AP4001 Applications Specific Integrated Circuits Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

 To prepare the student to be an entry-level industrial standard ASIC or FPGA designer.
 To analyze the issues and tools related to ASIC/FPGA design and implementation.
 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 – Design flow – CMOS transistors – Combinational Logic Cell – Sequential logic cell -Data path logic cell – Transistors as Resistors – Transistor Parasitic Capacitance- Logical effort.

UNIT II PROGRAMMABLE ASICS, PROGRAMMABLE ASIC LOGIC CELLS AND PROGRAMMABLE ASIC I/O CELLS

Anti-fuse – static RAM – EPROM and EEPROM technology – Actel ACT – Xilinx LCA –Altera FLEX – Altera MAX DC & AC inputs and outputs – Clock & Power inputs – Xilinx I/O blocks.

UNIT III PROGRAMMABLE ASIC ARCHITECTURE

Architecture and configuration of Spartan / Cyclone and Virtex / Stratix FPGAs – Micro-Blaze / Nios based embedded systems – Signal probing techniques.

UNIT IV LOGIC SYNTHESIS, PLACEMENT AND ROUTING

Logic synthesis – ASIC floor planning- placement and routing – 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, “Design of Analog – Digital VLSI Circuits for Telecommunication and Signal Processing”, Prentice Hall, 1994.
3. M.J.S.Smith, ” Application – Specific Integrated Circuits”, Pearson,2003.
4 Mohammed Ismail and Terri Fiez, “Analog VLSI Signal and Information Processing “, McGraw Hill, 1994.
5 Roger Woods, John McAllister, Dr. Ying Yi, Gaye Lightbod, “FPGA-based Implementation of Signal Processing Systems”, Wiley, 2008.
6 Steve Kilts, “Advanced FPGA Design,” Wiley Inter-Science,2007