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Syllabus

• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) will be the primary medium for design of electronic products in this century. Present-day IC-design methodology based on high level design capture and the use of logic synthesis is far from a "push-button" solution. To realize a high quality design, the designer must simultaneously consider both the coding of the design and the requirements for logic synthesis. The goal of the course is to provide the first step in the design process of ASICs: modeling and verification. In particular, Introduction/ASIC Flow, ASIC Basics, Basic VHDL constructs, Testbenches, Language constructs, Modeling Combinational & synchronous logic, Modeling FSMs, Qualitative Design Issues, ASIC Constructions.
• Prerequisites: 271 & one high level programming language.
• Contact Information: Dr. X. Song, FAB 160-15, Office Hours: MW 14:00-15:00 email: song@ee.pdx.edu.

Course Material

• (Reference) Application-Specific Integrated Circuits Addison-Wesley VLSI Design Series ISBN: 0-201-50022-1 TK7874.6.S63 Michael John Sebastian Smith
• (Reference) Circuit Design with VHDL, by Volnei A. Pedroni The MIT Press (August 1, 2004) ISBN: 0262162245
• (Reference) VHDL Design Representation and Synthesis (2nd Edition) by James R. Armstrong, F. Gail Gray
• (Reference) HDL Chip Design : A Practical Guide for Designing, Synthesizing & Simulating ASICs & FPGAs Using VHDL or Verilog, Douglas J. Smith, 1998. Doone Pubns; ISBN: 0965193438
• (Reference) VHDL for Designers, Stefan Sjoholm, etc. ISBN 0-13-473414-9