VLSI –an introduction
- History of IC design.
- Design Methodologies.
- Digital circuit design using CMOS.
- Overview of ASICs.
- Electronic Design Automation tools.
- VLSI Design flow.
- Fundamental of Digital Electronics.
2- Designing with Schematic
- Digital circuit design using Schematic.
- Testing digital circuits on software and hardware.
- Implementing circuits on programmable chips.
- Tool used:- Microwind Lite 3.5 &Dsch35.
3- Designing with HDL (hardware description language)
- Introduction to Verilog & VHDL (Focus on Verilog).
- Structural modelling.
- Dataflow modelling.
- Behavioral modelling.
- Designing circuit with HDL.
- Modeling and concepts module instantiation, ports and their mapping,
- Test bench:- reg, regular delay, stimulus writing, system task, concept of initial block
- Dataflow modeling
- Operators: bitwise, arithmetic, logical, reduction, shift, relational, equality, concatenation.
- Verilog Language & data types:- keywords, syntax, semantic, case sensitive, comments, naming convention foridentifiers,
- escaped identifiers, number representation & formats, strings, data types, vectors, arrays, bit & part select of Vectors.
- Behavioral modeling:- initial & always procedural blocks, different methods of generating a clock, blocking and non blocking assignments
- Event control (sequential circuit modeling):- edge/level triggering Procedural statements:- if, if else, nested if i.e. if – else if, case, casex, casez , for, while, repeat, forever,
- Tool used:- Xilinx 14.1(Latest Version).
4- Simulation and synthesis issues
- Fundamental of simulation and synthesis.
- Simulation process and types of simulation and simulator.
- Synthesis design flow.
- Synthesis tools features.
5- Implementation of digital circuits on programmable chips
- On CPLD’s.