Special Topics on VLSI for Digital Communications

Course Description

This course will cover major topics of VLSI architecture and their applications to digital communication baseband designs. The content of VLSI architecture includes techniques commonly employed in architectural optimization. With these techniques in your mind, this course then describes issues related to the hardware implementation of digital communication systems, especially for the baseband design. Starting from an algorithm, students will learn how to develop the corresponding VLSI architectures and evaluate different design alternatives for some specific components used in state-of-the-art digital communication systems.

Text Book

• K.K. Parhi, VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems: Design and Implementation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999.

References

• R. J. Higgins, Digital Signal Processing in VLSI, Prentice Hall, 1990.
• S. Y. Kung, VLSI and Modern Signal Processing, Prentice Hall, 1985.
• H. J. R. Liu and K. Yao, High-Performance VLSI Signal Processing: Innovative Architectures and Algorithms (Volumes 1 and 2), IEEE Press, 1998.
• J. G. Proakis, Digital Communications, McGraw-Hill Inc., 1995.
• S. Haykin, Communication Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001.
• E. A. Lee and D. G. Messerschmitt, Digital Communication, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1999.
• T.K. Moon, Error Correction Coding, Mathematical Methods and Algorithms, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005.

Handout

• Textbook
• Class Information (Updated on 2022/09)
• Chapter 1: Intorduction(Updated on 2022/09)
• Chapter 2: Pipelining, Retiming & Parallel Processing(Updated on 2022/10)
• Chapter 3: Folding and Unfolding(Updated on 2022/11)
• Chapter 4: Systolic Architecture Design(Updated on 2022/11)
• Chapter 5: OFDM & Fast Fourier Transform
• Chapter 6: Convolutional Code & Viterbi Decoders