Viterbi Decoder: Presentation #7 M1 Overall Project Objective: Design a high speed Viterbi Decoder...

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Viterbi Decoder: Presentation #7

M1

Overall Project Objective:

Design a high speed Viterbi Decoder

Stage 7: 1st Mar. 2004

Component layout (corrected)

Design Manager: Yaping Zhan

Omar Ahmad

Prateek Goenka

Saim Qidwai

Lingyan Sun

Status

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Design Proposal (Done)Architecture Proposal (Done)Gate level Design(Done)Component Layout (DRC & LVS): (Done)Major Blocks Layout: (Almost)

BCU: 100%Trace Back: 100%ACS/ML Search: 80%

To be done:Chip LayoutSpice Simulation of Entire Chip

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Old Floorplan

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M4

M2

M3

New Floorplan

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Dimensions

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Old: 318 x 285 sq. um ~22,500 transistors Density – 0.248

New: 319 x 219 sq. um ~21,000 transistors Density – 0.3005

3 bits stage in MLSearch(Old)

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18-525, Integrated Circuits Design Project

3 bits stage in MLSearch(New)

Old ACS Unit (Schematic)

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New ACS Unit (Schematic)

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Top Level Schematic (Old)

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Top Level Schematic (New)

Simulations still match!!

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Trace Back

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BCU Cell

BCU Unit (Layout)

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New Comparator Layout

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Comparator 8b (50 fF)Propagation Delay

Worst Case: 2.23 ns

New comparator Propagation Delay

Worst Case = 812 ps.

New comparator falling

Worst Case = 805 ps.

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Questions?

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