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This document contains a question paper for an examination on VLSI Design and ASIC topics. It has three parts with multiple choice and long answer questions. Part A contains 10 short answer questions about ASIC advantages, logic gates, FPGA technologies, configurations, processors, logic synthesis, routing, and impedance matching. Part B has 5 long answer questions about ASIC design flows, logic cells, FPGA architectures, processors, floorplanning, and routing techniques. Part C asks about digital camera architectures or types of DDRAM memory.

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This document contains a question paper for an examination on VLSI Design and ASIC topics. It has three parts with multiple choice and long answer questions. Part A contains 10 short answer questions about ASIC advantages, logic gates, FPGA technologies, configurations, processors, logic synthesis, routing, and impedance matching. Part B has 5 long answer questions about ASIC design flows, logic cells, FPGA architectures, processors, floorplanning, and routing techniques. Part C asks about digital camera architectures or types of DDRAM memory.

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*X86285*

Reg. No. :

Question Paper Code : X 86285


M.E./M.Tech. Degree Examinations, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020
Elective
VLSI Design
VL 5008 – selected topics in asic design
(Regulations 2017)

Time : Three Hours Maximum : 100 Marks

Answer all questions

Part – A (10�2=20 Marks)

1. List the advantages of ASICs.

2. Using input A, calculate the logical effort for the following gates. Assume L = 2λ.
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3. Compare SRAM and Antifuse technologies used in FPGAs.

4. Discuss the tradeoffs between cost, size and efficiency of FPGAs.

5. What are the configuration modes of Spartran FPGA ?

6. How Microblaze soft core processors are suitable for embedded system designs ?

7. What is Logic synthesis process ?

8. Why metal layers are used in routing ?

9. What is the need for I/O impedance matching in ASICs ?

10. What are the types of digital camera ?

Part – B (5�13=65 Marks)

11. a) Explain in detail the various phases in ASIC design flow.

(OR)

b) Explain the principles and optimizations used in Datapath logic cell design.

12. a) Explain Altera FLEX block diagram and the features of Logic Array Blocks.

(OR)

b) Explain clock generation, distribution and clock related constraints in FPGAs.

13. a) Explain Cyclone III FPGA architecture. How Cyclone FPGA series is built to
satisfy the low-power and low-cost needs ?

(OR)

b) Explain the features and functional units in NIOS-II processor core. What
are its advantages and its application areas ?
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14. a) Explain the objectives and optimization goals of Floorplanning process.


Explain any one algorithm used for floorplanning.

(OR)

b) Explain the objectives and various clock routing techniques used in ASIC
design. How routing affects the operating speed of the chip ?

15. a) Explain ASIC implementation of high performance FFT algorithms.

(OR)

b) Explain ASIC implementation of reconfigurable FIR filters.

Part – C (1�15=15 Marks)

16. a) Explain the software and hardware architecture of a digital camera. What
are the operations it can perform ? Compare it with the traditional film camera.

(OR)

b) Explain the types of DDRAM memory. Explain the computation/memory


access trade-offs involved.

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