AP7202 ASIC AND FPGA DESIGN

AP7202 ASIC AND FPGA DESIGN 

UNIT I           OVERVIEW OF ASIC AND PLD

Types of ASICs - Design flow – CAD tools used in ASIC Design – Programming Technologies: Antifuse – static RAM – EPROM and EEPROM technology, Programmable Logic Devices : ROMs and EPROMs – PLA –PAL. Gate Arrays – CPLDs and FPGAs 

UNIT II       ASIC PHYSICAL DESIGN

System partition -partitioning - partitioning methods – interconnect delay models and measurement of delay - floor planning - placement – Routing : global routing - detailed routing - special routing - circuit extraction - DRC 

UNIT III       LOGIC SYNTHESIS, SIMULATION AND TESTING

Design systems - Logic Synthesis - Half gate ASIC -Schematic entry - Low level design language PLA tools -EDIF- CFI design representation. Verilog and logic synthesis -VHDL and logic synthesis types of simulation -boundary scan test -fault simulation - automatic test pattern generation. 

UNIT IV  FPGA

Field Programmable gate arrays- Logic blocks, routing architecture, Design flow technology - mapping for FPGAs,  Xilinx  XC4000 - ALTERA’s FLEX 8000/10000, ACTEL’s ACT-1,2,3 and their speed performance Case studies:  Altera MAX 5000 and 7000 - Altera MAX 9000 – Spartan II and Virtex II FPGAs - Apex and Cyclone FPGAs 

UNITV SOC DESIGN

Design Methodologies – Processes and Flows - Embedded software development for SOC – Techniques for SOC Testing – Configurable SOC – Hardware / Software codesign Case studies: Digital camera, Bluetooth radio / modem, SDRAM and USB

REFERENCES: 

1.  M.J.S .Smith, "Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison -Wesley Longman Inc., 1997 

2. S. Trimberger, Field Programmable Gate Array Technology, Edr, Kluwer Academic Publications, 1994. 

3. John V.Oldfield, Richard C Dore, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Wiley Publications 1995. 

4. P.K.Chan & S. Mourad, Digital Design Using Field Programmable Gate Array, Prentice Hall, 1994. 

5. Parag.K.Lala, Digital System Design using Programmable Logic Devices , BSP, 2003. 

6. S. Brown, R. Francis, J. Rose, Z. Vransic, Field Programmable Gate Array, Kluwer Pubin, 1992. 

7. J. Old Field, R.Dorf, Field Programmable Gate Arrays, John Wiley & Sons, Newyork, 1995. 

8. Farzad Nekoogar and Faranak Nekoogar, From ASICs to SOCs: A Practical  Approach, Prentice Hall PTR, 2003. 

9.  Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design, Prentice Hall PTR, 2004. 

10. R. Rajsuman, System-on-a-Chip Design and Test. Santa Clara, CA: Artech House  Publishers, 2000. 

11. F. Nekoogar. Timing Verification of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). Prentice Hall PTR, 1999.