Application Specific Integrated Circuit Design

3 credits

Introduction to ASIC chips: circuit design, fabrication, testing and cost analysis. Advanced synchronous digital design techniques such as pipelining, parallelism, and caching. Application to sorting, encoding, decryption, and digital filters. Students do a design using a high-level design language (VHDL) and test it on a RAM based FPGA. Prerequisite: Background in ; This course is normally taught every year, winter semester