Internet Links

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Local Documents on c3iwww.epfl.ch

• The Development of Digital Television

• Test Decision Flow

• Designing complex systems on Silicon (Word document)

• Modélisation de systèmes numériques intégrés - Introduction à VHDL 

Local Documents on vlsi.wpi.edu

• Aries: An LSI Macroblock for DSP Applications

  This is an online Master's Thesis, which describes the Full Custom design of a DSP Macro block. It discusses various issues of adder design and RAM design.

• Guide to Synthesis and Implementation Tools for VHDL Modeling and Design

  This document focuses on the steps needed to actually map a VHDL design onto FPGA chips. It describes various configuration files and scripts needed during this process.

• Online publications of Microelectronics Group Members

  Publications of WPI Microelectronics Group members in PDF, PS or MS-PowerPoint format are available. Some papers have also been converted to HTML format. Topics include Analog/Digital Converters, Threshold Logic Circuits and High-Speed Mixed Signal Circuits.

VLSI Education Links

• Links to VLSI Related Courses

  University of Idaho has a very nice collection of VLSI related links. The above link points to the list of VLSI related courses.

• Lecture Slides, VLSI Digital Circuits

  An excellent site in Poland featuring complete colorful lecture slides of the VLSI Digital Circuits Course.

• Computer Aids for VLSI Design

  This is a complete book on Computer Aided design of Integrated Circuits available online. The book was originally published in 1987, this is a revised second edition.

• ASIC's... The Web Site

  A huge website which is designed to be a companion to the book "ASIC's". According to the author the material consists of nearly 300 figures and 100 tables, as well as the complete text of the 1040 page book.

• Cadence (CAD tool) User's Guide

  Cadence design environment of Cadence Design Systems is an industrial grade design environment for VLSI circuits. These pages provide a very nice tutorial for this complex program.

• Digital Integrated Circuits - Instructor's Material

  This is the web page for "Digital Integrated Circuits", a popular textbook by Jan Rabaey. It includes, among other things, transparency slides for all lectures.

• Microchips Presentation

  A very good introductory level presentation of the microelectronic circuits. Excellent graphics and animations, a must see. The only drawbacks, are the size of images (patience or high speed links required) and the presentation language, which is in German.

• Reto Zimmermann Homepage

  Reto Zimmermann has complete course slides (Computer Arithmetic: Principles, Architectures, and VLSI Design) in Postscript format on his homepage. The slides give an excelent overview of current computation architectures. Reto Zimmermann also maintains the Emacs VHDL mode.

Other Related Sites

• Chip Directory

  If you are looking for pinouts, general information about chips this is definetely the place to take a look at. The site maintains a large collection of links.

• Stammtisch Beau Fleuve!

  This is a cute site. Acronyms for the masses: the glossary includes more than 15000 entries.

• CPU Info Center

  Everything about CPU's: history, news, photographs, performance charts and comprehensive list of online CPU documentation.

• Magic - A VLSI Layout System

  MAGIC is a popular layout design systems for VLSI circuits. It is extensively being used by educational institutes and even in industry. The best part is that it runs on any ordinary PC.

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• GIMP

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