EE241:
Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits
Projects
To foster design innovation and creative thinking, a major part of
the class grade is based on a design project. The idea of the project is
to study one of the current "hot items" in digital circuit design and to
propose, analyze and design a novel solution to one of those problems.
The project is performed in groups of two and will span the complete semester.
Schedule
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WEEK 3: Proposal of Topic
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WEEK 3-6: Literature Study (> 4 papers) - Formulation of Design Project
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WEEK 7: Posting of interim result report
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WEEK 8-14: Design Execution.
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WEEK 15: Presentation of Design Results
A report is expected at both week 9 and week 15. To make the results
available to the complete group and to make your results more dynamic,
you will be required to provide them as web-entries. For those of you
not familiar with the creation of a web-page, please refer to A
Beginners Guide to HTML . Excellent web-page composers exist and most
word processing and presentation tools provide a web output generator.
List of 2002 Projects
Joshua Garrett and Al Molnar, "Power
Sentient techniques for variable throughput wireless applications"
Benny Warlick, Edward Liao "Very
Large SRAMs"
Jonathan Choy and Henry Lam, "Analysis
of variable-threshold double-data-rate memory design"
Nathan Chan, Richard Lu, and Danijela Cabric, "Energy-Delay
Tradeoff in Low Power, High Speed Digital Processors"
Kenneth Oo and Eddie Ng, "Study
of I/O Circuits in Digital Systems"
Kevin
Camera, "Low
Power Control for Programmable Datapaths"
Shiying Xiong and Jiagen Ding, "The
Impact of Parameter Fluctuation on future Circuit Performance
"
Jeff Butler, David Chu, "Split-Path
Skewed (SPS) CMOS Buffer for High Performance
and Low Power Applications"
Yuen Hui Chee and Cheongyuen Tsang, "Flip-Flop
Reliability Studies"
Qian
Yu and Jianjun Dong, "Exploration
of Adiabatic Switching Techniques and Charge Restoring for Low-Power Digital
Circuits"
Final Presentations
Final presentations are on Thursday May 16, 9am-12pm in Hogan Room, Cory
Hall.
Final reports and presentations are due on the web by 8 am May 16.
Midterm Reports
Midterm poster presentations and reports have to be placed on your web pages
by 10am on March 21.
Poster presentations are in BWRC on March 21, 11-12:30.
Suggested outline for reports, 4-5 pages long, min font 12:
- Title/names/e-mails, abstract
- Motivation
- Problem statement
- Possible solutions from literature
- Critical review/Proposed comparison/solution
- Conditions/assumptions for comparison
- Analysis
- Outline of proposed design work
- Conclusion
- References
Posters should have 9-12 slides with title/names/e-mails. Should state
motivation, problem statement, possible solutions from literature, proposed
comparison/solution, conditions/assumptions for comparison, analysis outline of
proposed design work.
