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Quiz 05
Assignment/Lab work 15
• Jan M.
M Rabaey,
Rabaey Anantha Chandrakasan,
Chandrakasan Borivoje Nikolic,
Nikolic
Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective,
Prentice Hall India, 2nd Ed, 2002.
• Explain the basic concepts of Verilog HDL and discuss the different
levels of abstraction used to describe hardware.
hardware
• Simulate and Synthesize the digital circuits using Verilog HDL for
a given problem statement using industry standard EDA tools.
• Discuss the timing issues of VLSI circuits and compute the critical
path.
FALL2010 ECE301 – VLSI System Design
Course Outcome
After successful completion of this course, you will have the
• Able to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and
engineering in the design, and analysis and modeling of
digital integrated circuits.
• What
Wh t kind
ki d off devices
d i / structures?
t t ?
– transistors (bipolar, MOSFET)
– wires (interconnects and passives)
– diodes (junction, LEDs, VCSELs, MSM, photoconductor, PiN)
– MEMs (piezoelectric integration, accelerometers, gyroscopes,
pressure sensors, micro-mirrors)
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Courtesy: Intel, http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw/
ECE301 – VLSI System Design
Moore’s
Moore s Law continued
continued..
• Number of
components in an
integrated circuit
double everyy2
years
• Signifies
g increase
in computing
capacity, memory
and speed
exponentially
• n-channel
• p-channel
• High
g Power dissipation
p
• Faster operation
• Methodologies to address these issues