This tutorial aims at highlighting the NoC journey from its origins till date. We also aim at giving an insight into the different path choices faced at different times and the preferred paths taken. With the necessary insight into the past and the present of the NoCs, we will dwell on the challenges and solutions being considered around the world. We shall also talk about the direction in whic...

Absfrncr -The computer-aided design of a VLSI PCM-FDM transmultiplexer is presented. The entire design process from sysrem specifiearions to integrated circuit layout is carried out with the aid of specialized computer programs for analysis, synthesis and optimization at each design level: the firter network, the architecture and the circuit layout. These CAD tools support a top-down custom des...

A software shell is being developed for assisting in VLSI package design. Called Packaging Design Support Environment, the shell integrates tools for modeling and simulation of electrical characteristics of VLSI packages. Parameter extractors tools calculate inductance and capacitance for multiconductor, multi-dielectric, two-dimensional structures with lossy dielectrics. The simulation tools c...

Circuit simulation has proven to be one of the most important computer aided design (CAD) methods for verification and analysis of, integrated circuit designs. A popular approach to modeling circuits for simulation purposes is to use a hardware description language such as VHDL. VHDL has had a tremendous impact in fostering and accelerating CAD systems development in the digital arena. Similar ...

We present an analytical method to perform the design of the I/O subsystem of an IC given its throughput requirements. Our method can be used to select the IC package, along with the bus size and speed so as to minimize I/O cost. We have validated our model by conducting simulations on three industry-standard packages while varying the bus width, slew rate, and signal-to-power/ground ratio. Our...

To develop the semiconductor industry in any country, working knowledge of VLSI circuit design is crucial. galvanize undergraduate students to learn and work burgeoning field VLSI, a competition, “VLSI Design Competition 2022,” was jointly organized by IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS)/Electron Devices (EDS) Bangladesh Joint Chapter Department Electrical Electronic Engineering (EEE), Uni...

Advances in System-on-Chip (SoC) design have emphasized the need for driving long on-chip differential traces. The delay of long traces has traditionally been handled by inserting repeaters at periodic intervals. The repeater method reduces the delay at the expense of increased power consumption. At the same time, power is a major design consideration in SoC design, motivating a driver methodol...

Advances in System-on-Chip (SoC) design have emphasized the need for driving long on-chip differential traces. The delay of long traces has traditionally been handled by inserting repeaters at periodic intervals. The repeater method reduces the delay at the expense of increased power consumption. At the same time, power is a major design consideration in SoC design, motivating a driver methodol...

This report describes a fully automatic placement tool for PCBs (printed circuit boards), nap (nonhierarchical automatic placement) that combines approaches from several different placement heuristics developed both for PCB and VLSI chip placement. Although the problem of placement for a PCB can be abstractly cast into the same formalism as the problem of VLSI cell placement, a practical tool m...

With the increasing complexity of VLSI circuits, simulation of digital circuits is becoming a more complex and time-consuming task. General purpose parallel processing machines are increasingly being used to speed up a variety of VLSI CAD applications. All previous works on mapping sequential logic simulation algorithms onto general purpose parallel machines were centered around using Event-Dri...