Kerala technological university ernakulam I cluster

To give the Student an idea about:-

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   To learn the fundamentals of High speed signal propagation in circuits and cables.
   
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   To understand the principles of signal integrity and its applications in the proper design of high-speed digital circuits.
   
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   To have a basic exposure to the different conventions and modelling schemes used in High Speed Digital Design Circuits.
   

Introduction to High Speed Digital Design, Modeling of Wires, Power Distribution, Noise Sources in Digital Systems, Signaling Conventions, Terminator Circuits, Timing Convention, Clock Distribution and Synchronization.

At the end of the course, student will know the fundamentals of high speed signal propagation in circuits and cables; the practical and theoretical aspects necessary to design modern High Speed Digital systems at the platform level; and will be able to apply this knowledge to determine where signal integrity issues may arise and how to solve problems of poor digital signal integrity.

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   Dally &Paulton, Digital System Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
   
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   Johnson & Graham, High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic, Prentice Hall 1993.
   

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   Meinel, Christoph, and Thorsten Theobald, “Algorithms and Data Structures in VLSI Design: OBDD-Foundations and Applications”, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 1998.
   
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   Drechsler, Rolf, “Evolutionary Algorithms for VLSI CAD” Springer Science & Business Media, 1998.
   
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   Masakazu Shoji, High Speed Digital Circuits, Addison Wesley, 1996.
   
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   Jan M.Rabaey et al. Digital Integrated Circuits: A design Perspective, 2003.
   

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   To learn the fundamentals of MEMS & Micro System Design.
   
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   To present a general introduction to the field of MEMS, with emphasis on its commercial applications and device fabrication methods.
   
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   To learn about the new materials, science and technology for microsystem applications..
   

History of MEMS, MEMS materials, MEMS fabrication processes, Micromachining, MEMS Devices & Packaging, MEMS Packaging issues, Application Case studies.

At the end of the course, student will know the fabrication technologies; material properties and structural mechanics; packaging, and MEMS markets and applications; and will be able to understand state-of-the-art micromachining and packaging technologies.

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   Foundation of MEMS, Second Edition 2011 – Chang Liu, Pearson.
   
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   Gregory T A, Kovacs Micro machined Transducers Sourcebook, WCB McGraw-Hill, 1998.
   

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   Microsystem Design – by Stephen D. Senturia, Publishers: Kluwer Academic / Springer, 2nd Edition (2005), ISBN: 0792372468
   
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   Marc Madou, Fundamentals of Microfabrication, CRC Press, New York, 2002.
   
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   NadimMaluf, An introduction to Microelectromechanical system design, ArtechHouse, 2000
   
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   Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, Editor, The MEMS Handbook, CRC Press, Baco Raton, 2002.
   

Application case studies: MEMS Scanners and Retinal Scanning Displays (RSD), Grating Light Valve (GLV), Digital Micromirror Devices (DMD), Optical switching, Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUT), Air bag system, Micromotors, Scanning Probe Microscopy.

To give the Student an idea about:-

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   Hardware modeling, DSP algorithms and architecture design and DSP module synthesis.
   
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   To present a general introduction toDSP algorithm and architecture design and VLSI performance measures.
   
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   To introduce the concept of parallel algorithms and their dependence.
   

Hardware modelling, DSP Algorithm and Architecture Design, VLSI performance measures (area, power, and speed), structural modeling in VHDL, High performance arithmetic unit architectures, DSP Module Synthesis, Parallel algorithms and their dependence, Applications using common DSP algorithms.

Students who successfully complete this course will be having the knowledge abouthardware modelling, DSP algorithm and architecture design and DSP Module Synthesis.Students should be able to contribute the knowledge in DSP architecture design. Students will be able to understand the concept of parallel algorithms and their dependence and applications.

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   SenM.Kuo ,Woon-Seng S. Gan, Digal Signal Processors: Architectures, Implementations, and Applications Prentice Hall 2004.
   
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   Uwe Meyer-Baese, Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Array, Springer- Verlag 2001.
   
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   Keshab K. Parhi, VLSI Signal Processing Systems, Design and Implementation, John Wiley & Sons,1999.
   
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   John G. Proakis ,DimitrisManolakis K, DSP Principles, Algorithms and Applications, Prentice Hall 1995.
   
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   J Bhasker, VHDL Primer, Pearson Education Asia, 3rd edition.
   

Parallel algorithms and their dependence: Applications to some common DSP algorithms, system timing using the scheduling vector, projection of the dependence graph using a projection direction, the delay operator and z-transform techniques for mapping DSP algorithms onto processor arrays, algebraic technique for mapping algorithms, computation domain, dependence matrix of a variable, scheduling and projection functions, data broadcast and pipelining, applications using common DSP algorithms.

To give the student an idea about:-

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   The need for low power VLSI chips, sources of power dissipation on digital integrated circuits and emerging low power approaches.
   
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   The concept of simulation power analysis and circuit level low power design.
   
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   The concept of low power architecture & systems.
   

Need for low power VLSI chips, sources of power dissipation on digital integrated circuits, emerging low power approaches, simulation power analysis, circuit level low power design, low power architecture & systems.

Students who successfully complete this course will be having the knowledge about low power VLSI chips, sources of power dissipation on digital integrated circuits and emerging low power approaches. Students should be able to contribute the knowledge in the design of low power VLSI chips and in the design of low power memory. Students will also be able to understand the concept of simulation power analysis and circuit level low power design.

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   Gary K. Yeap, “Practical Low Power Digital VLSI Design”, KAP, 2002
   
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   Rabaey, Pedram, “Low power design methodologies” Kluwer Academic, 1997
   

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   Kaushik Roy, Sharat Prasad, “Low-Power CMOS VLSI Circuit Design” Wiley, 2000
   

Low power Architecture & Systems: Power & performance management, switching activity reduction, parallel architecture with voltage reduction, flow graph transformation, low power arithmetic components, low power memory design.