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Student presentations
A video projector will be available at the presentation. If you need a laptop at the presentation - please tell me before
Send your presentation to
Peter.Nilsson @ eit.lth.se
no later than the night before your presentation.
A PowerPoint template is available. It is optional to use it but please look at the advises in the template.
Topics for the student presentations
This list show some topics that can be interesting.
Your own ideas of topics are welcome and appreciated!
Feel free to add case studies as a part of the presentation.
Some of the topics are introduced in the lecturing part in the first half of the course. Try to move on from that point without too much overlap.
A hardware perspective is important for all topics!
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Arithmetic operations
- Division - square root
- Arithmetic for complex numbers
- Scaling, truncation, rounding, dynamic range -
Advanced arithmetic operations
- Trigonometric functions
- Logarithms
- Arithmetic in the logarithmic domain
- Look up tables (LUTs)
- Arithmetic for large numbers e.g. for crypto -
Logical effort
- see the book p. 252-255 -
Number representation with a hardware perspective
- Signed/unsigned,
- High radix,
- Redundant numbers etc. -
Bit-parallel/bit-serial/digit-serial arithmetic
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Distributed Arithmetic
- Case studies -
CORDIC algorithm for ASIC
- Theory
- Different architectures -
Newton Raphson hardware
- with and without LUTs -
Wires
- especially the transmission line effect -
DC-DC converters in an ASIC perspective
- Focus on DC-DC converters on chip!!!
- DC-DC for multiple voltages, control structures, etc.
- Case studies -
Asynchronous logic
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Threshold voltage techniques/technologies
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Multiple supply techniques
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Low Power microprocessors
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Embedded processors, e.g. ARM (amba bus)
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Embedded memories
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Network-on-Chip (NoC)
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Low swing techniques
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Digital CMOS operation in the sub-threshold region
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Tools for CMOS design
- Power estimation,
- Synthesis,
- Simulation
- Layout,
- High level design,
- etc. -
CMOS temperature behavior,
- hotspots -
CMOS in outer space
- cosmic rays (at ground level as well) -
CMOS Processing (and other exotic materials)
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FPGAs - How does they work
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Leakage (and other effects) in future technologies
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Clocking in a VLSI perspective
- Clock recovery
- Clock domains
- On chip clock generation
- Multiple supply -
Filter hardware, especially
- Single-Constant Multiplication
- Multiple-Constant Multiplication -
Case studies
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Other (this one is appreciated!)