ECSE 6680 - Advanced VLSI Design

Introduction to VLSI architecture design approaches and methodologies for digital signal processing systems, digital memory circuits and architectures, and computer VLSI arithmetic. Topics include: pipelining, parallel processing, timing and clocking, systolic architectures, digital filter architectures, Viterbi decoder architectures, SRAM, DRAM, flash memory, high-speed adder and multiplier architectures. Laboratory experiments involve the use of commercial EDA tools with hardware description language (HDL).

Prerequisite or Corequisite: Prerequisite: ECSE 4220.

When Offered: AVAILABILITY OF INSTRUCTOR

Graded: GRADED

Credit Hours: 3