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 /
conference room. To show sections of the layout, please use cif2ps, pplot,
xv, xwd, or Xwin32 PC captured plots as part of the presentation. I
will have a laptop and projector available. There is no PC in DH1049 this year,
but you can bring your own laptop. I would like to archive these on the class
web site, so in any case, please e-mail me your presentation in advance.
Please e-mail to me a required one page summary statement of your project and its status by noon on Tuesday, December 2, 2003. I will collect all statements and e-mail to the class and the AMD judges on that Tuesday night. 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 how two phase clocking is distributed to blocks
3. PLA Description
State
Transition Diagram how control flow proceeds in your design
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, and predicted clock frequency
6. Testability Analysis
Functional
Test Strategy Spring testing requirements external RAM, I/O, etc.
Output
Signals for Testability (State Bits, etc.)