Transcript Course description

ELEC 692 Special Topic
VLSI Signal Processing Architecture
Fall 2004
Chi-ying Tsui
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
HKUST
[email protected]
Rm: 2522
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Course Description
 ELEC692 is dedicated for advanced Digital VLSI architecture for
high performance and low power digital signal processing,
particularly for communication and multimedia applications
 General design and transformation techniques will be discussed
for the optimization of the computation and architecture
– pipelining, retiming, folding and unfolding, and systolic
array design will be discussed
– algorithmic/architectural tradeoff in power and
performance will be studied
– example applications in video processing and wireless
communication architectures will be provided.
 Specialized Application specific VLSI Architectures will be
discussed if time permits.
 Extensive use of CAD tools and HDL modeling - Synopsys and
Cadence Tools
 Design project
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Course Objectives
 This course reviews the design of VLSI architecture and design
methodologies for digital signal processing for multimedia and
communication applications. Application-specific processors
and architectures to support real time processing of digital
signals for different applications will be studied. Upon
completion of this course, students will attain the following:
 knowledge on designing high performance and low power
architectures for different signal processing applications
 methodology of designing VLSI implementation for different
signal processing applications from the algorithmic level down
to circuit level
 understanding the algorithmic/architectural tradeoff for
designing a signal processing applications
 hand-on experience of using state-of-the-art CAD tools on
designing such kind of architecture
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Text and Reference Books
 Major Text:
– K. K. Parhi, VLSI Digital Signal Processing
Systems: Design and Implementation,
John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
– P. Pirsch, Architecture for Digital Signal
Processing, John Wiley and Sons, 1998.
– Selected papers from IEEE Transactions
and other Journals
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Course Grading
 Homework: 30%
– 3 to 4 written assignments
 Paper project 25%
– Literature review on a special topic.
– Presentation and written paper are required.
– Individual project
 Design project: 45%
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Group or individual project: Personal per group ~ 2
Team work is important
Design an architecture for a signal processing algorithm
Tasks to be finished
• Specification: High-level model
• Logic Design: Synthesis and simulation
• Layout Design of critical block
• Verification - simulation for different abstraction level
• Final Layout of the chip (Optional)
• Performance estimation of the chip (Optional)
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Lecture Outline
 The course is delivered through lectures. The following topics will
be covered in the course:
 Introduction
– Overview on Typical Signal Processing Algorithms
– Overview of VLSI Architectures
– Basic signal processing kernel algorithm: digital filter, linear
transformation
 General signal processing architecture design techniques
– Pipelining
– Parallel Processing
 General algorithm transformation techniques:
– Retiming
– unfolding algorithm
– Folding Transformation
– Register Minimization
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Lecture Outline
 Systolic array structure and design methodology
– Mapping of algorithm to array structures
 Low Power design of digital signal processing systems
 Programmable digital signal processor architectures:
– Architecture and programming issues
– DSP Processors for Mobile and Wireless Communications
– Re-configurable computing using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)
 Signal processing arithmetic applications:
– Distributed arithmetic, CORDIC
– FFT/IFFT, DCT/IDCT
 VLSI signal processing architecture for multimedia applications
– JPEG/MPEG
– Motion estimation architecture
 VLSI signal processing architecture for communication applications
– Network processor architecture
– Digital modulation systems such as OFDM
– VLSI architecture for channel error correction coding such as Viterbi decoder,
Turbo code decoder
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Teaching Team
 Instructor:
– Dr. Chi-ying Tsui(eetsui@ee)
– Tel: 2358-7071
– Office: Rm. 2522
– Office hour: Tuesday. 4-6p.m.
 Technician (by email or
appointment) :
– Mr. Jeff Lam(jeff@ee)
– Tel: 2358-8844
– Office: Rm: 3114b
http://www.ee.ust.hk/~elec692
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Assumed Background knowledge
 Basic CMOS circuit theory and design technique
– resistance, capacitance, inductance
– MOS gate characteristics
– Different CMOS logic design technique
– Basic performance evaluation
 Use of modern EDA tools
– simulation, validation (HSPICE)
– schematic capture tools (Cadence)
 Logic design
– logical minimization, FSMs, component design
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