520.490: Analog and Digital
VLSI Systems and Architecture
Design
Projects
Fall
2000
The class design
project culminates the VLSI experience gained in the course by going
through a complete design cycle, from an algorithmic and system-level
description to transistor-level implementation in an integrated circuit. Students (in groups of two or three) design
and layout a VLSI system-on-a-chip using the Cadence CAD tools, including
post-layout verification and simulation.
Select designs are fabricated through MOSIS, and laboratory
facilities are available for testing after the course.
Students in class
work closely together with and receive guidance from graduate students
in the Adaptive Microsystems
Laboratory. This provides for valuable research training
experience for the students in class, and also educational training
experience for the graduate students in the laboratory.
Detailed instructions
and guidelines for the project can be found here.
The Fall 2000 design projects are given below, with links to the final
reports. Brannon, Brian bgb@jhu.edu Campbell, David dcampbell@jhu.edu Koh, Hunter hk18@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Heron, Alexandra alexandra@jhu.edu Tejada, Fransisco ft1@jhu.edu Woo, Sara woo@jhu.edu Hejari, Seyed Pooya pooyey@hotmail.com Moyer, Erin epm1@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Tang, Edward ect1@jhu.edu Philipp, Ralf ralfphilipp@jhu.edu Deng, Yunbin yunbin@jhu.edu Sanders, Deneah dds1@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Caputo, Lisa lisa.caputo@jhu.edu Chan, King Man kmc3@jhu.edu Shih, Ken kens@hops.cs.jhu.edu Adil, Farhan fa13@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu Chu, Andrew chewie@jhu.edu Mulliken, Grant gmullike@bme.jhu.edu Last updated 12/04/2000, Gert Cauwenberghs <gert@jhu.edu>Imaging and Adaptive Optics (Marc
Cohen, marc@bach.ece.jhu.edu)
Passive pixel image quality sensor
Focal-plane image processor
Signal Processing and Data Conversion
(Milutin Stanacevic, miki@jhu.edu)
Delta-sigma modulator with multi-bit feedback
Dual-slope integrating A/D converter
Speech and Communications (Shantanu
Chakrabartty, shantanu@bach.ece.jhu.edu)
Speech front-end processor
CDMA encoder and decoder
Support Vector Machines (Roman Genov, roman@jhu.edu)
Delta-sigma kernel quantizer