V L S I Design Lab

Lectures : Introduction to logic, timing and circuit simulation. Circuit design with FPGAS and PALS, issues in high speed circuit design. Experiments : Design of a complex digital circuit (eg. an ALU or a multiplier) using high level hardware description languages, logic simulation and timing simulation. Extraction of critical paths and circuit simulation of critical path sub-circuits. Circuit partitioning and realisation using FPGAS or PALS. Design of an analog circuit (eg. a filter) using circuit simulation. Setting up macromodels for subcircuits (eg. for OPAMS). Construction and performance verification for the circuit. Simulation of transmission line effects in a circuit layout. Project type experiments using a variety of techniques learnt in the course for realising circuit modules.