Courses Detail Information

ECE4270J – VLSI Design I

Instructors:

Xuyang Lu

Credits: 4 credits

Pre-requisites: ECE2700J Obtained Credit&&ECE3120J Obtained Credit

Description:

Lectures and lab assignments to introduce the students to the implementation of mask-level integrated systems, with emphasis on architectural and system-level synthesis. Topics include ASIC flow of combinational logic, finite state machines, sequential logic,  microprocessors, I/O, memory blocks, parallelism, clock and power distribution, and advanced design topics such as highspeed and neural network systems.

Course Topics:

1. A review of Mosfet, CMOS logic, basic memory blocks.
2. A review of combinational logic, finite state machine, Verilog
3. Architecture of FPGA
4. Timing constraints
5. RISC-V and stream processing
6. Memory/ Cache
7. Digital signal processing circuits
8. I/O network
9. Parallelism
10. List processor optimization, VLIW compiler
11. Techniques in adder/multiplier/shifters
12. Clk and power distribution
13. Research topics: DNN, highspeed wireline, etc.