520.490: Analog and Digital
VLSI Systems and Architecture
Design
Projects
Fall
2001
The VLSI experience gained in the course culminates in the class design
project, which takes students through a complete design cycle, from an algorithmic and system-level
description to transistor-level implementation in an integrated circuit. Groups of two or three students 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.
Information on Fall 2001 design projects appears below, with links to
the final reports. Fall 2000 design projects are archived here.
A Detector Array for Direct Control of a Deformable Mirror
Variable Resolution Imager
Algorithmic Partial Analog-to-Digital Converter
Support Vector Machine with On-Chip Training
Gradient Processor
Last updated 9/4/2002, Gert Cauwenberghs <gert@jhu.edu>
Robert Winsor, Margaret Frazier, Michael Krueger, and Tim Myers
Graduate Advisor: Marc Cohen
Aron Baik and Julius Lim
Graduate advisor: Roman Genov
Wesley Smith and Burt Ross
Graduate advisor: Roman Genov
Mihir Naware and Zaki Yahya
Graduate advisor: Shantanu Chakrabartty
Justin Chan and Marina Smelyansky
Graduate advisor: Milutin Stanacevic