This paper presents a new undergraduate laboratory oriented to digital circuit design training based on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). The target of the course has been to introduce concepts of ASIC design methodology using a low cost alternative and a design-oriented, hands-on learning approach. FPGAs have permitted us to implement a massive VLSI-like design course, not only for futur...

With the rapid development of integrated circuit design technology and the processed tasks and data volumes growing, MPSoC is becoming increasingly popular in a variety of applications. In MPSoC design, parallelism is a very important issue, for example, how to realize task parallelism and data parallelism. Focusing on this issue, this paper analyzes the role of DMA and presents an ILP-Based DM...

The Information extracted from log files of computing systems can be considered one of the important resources of information systems. In the case of Integrated Circuit design, log files generated by design tools are not exhaustively exploited. The logs of this domain are multi-source, multi-format, and have a heterogeneous and evolving structure. Moreover, they usually do not respect the gramm...

Automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) for sequential circuits remains one of the most compute-intensive tasks in the integrated circuit design process. Although numerous attempts have been made to speed the ATPG process via parallelization, these attempts have often proved disappointing when compared against the best available serial algorithms using metrics of resultant quality and performa...

Current mirror (CM) is the basic building block in analog and mixed mode circuit design. For high performance analog circuit applications, the current transfer ratio, output impedance and output swing are the most important parameters to determine the performance of the current mirror. CM’s are important for analog integrated circuits because of their wide use as constant sources or active load...

The capabilities of Horizontal Current Bipolar Transistor (HCBT) technology for radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC) design is analyzed. The HBCT, with its novel technological approach and integration with existing CMOS technologies, is entering the testing phase on IC level. The demanding RF integrated circuit requirements and design issues in the frequency range 0.9 – 5 GHz are presen...

Today Technology CAD (TCAD) tools are essential to the development of modern Integrated Circuit (IC) fabrication processes. They are as well, required in the design/ optimization of very detailed and critical circuits related to a given IC process, where the usual higher level tools in Electronic Design CAD (ECAD) frameworks do not exhibit the precision or the features required. The boundary be...

Analysis and design techniques for designing a lumped-element 3-dB quadrature coupler with wide-band flat coupling are proposed for microwave integrated-circuit/monolithic-microwave integrated-circuit applications. The proposed design technique can produce a coupler with flat coupling over 50% fractional bandwidth, which is wider than the conventional lumped-element design methods. A prototype ...