Elec 422, VLSI Design I
Class Presentation Guidelines
AMD Design Contest Presentations
Each group will have about
15 minutes to make their presentation to the class. The group should prepare an
electronic presentation with PowerPoint that describes the project. Please make
sure that the fonts are large enough to be readable in the classroom. To show
sections of the layout, please you use cif2ps, pplot, xv, xwd, or Xwin32
PC captured plots as part of the presentation. I will have a laptop available
or you can use the PC in DH1070. In any case, please e-mail me your
presentation in advance.
Please e-mail to me a one page summary statement of your project and its status by noon on Wednesday, December 4, 2002. I will collect all statements and e-mail to the class and the AMD judges on that Wed afternoon. This will help the judges prepare questions. Each project group will have one “vote” during the contest and will rank the top 3 best projects.
Each member of the
group should discuss the section that is their respective specialty, and plan
on a brief 3-minute overview per person. Due to the limited amount of time, you
should present the key, unique features of your design. The following topics
should be presented:
1. Functional Description of
Chip and Project Completion Status
How
much is completed; what needs to be done
2. Circuit Design
Logic
Diagrams
System
Timing Diagrams
3. PLA Description
State
Transition Diagram
Input
to meg, brief summary
4. Layout
Plots
of selected low-level Cells
Cell
Hierarchy
Floor
plan
Full
plot of Chip
5. System Performance
Analysis
Crystal
Analysis of Longest Path
Spice
Analysis of Critical Sub-Circuit
6. Testability Analysis
Functional
Test Strategy
Output
Signals for Testability (State Bits, etc.)