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Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Wisker, Gina (2009) The undergraduate research handbook, Palgrave MacMillan
Thomas, Gary (2017) How to do your research project : a guide for students, Sage
Other Texts:
Breach, Mark. () Dissertation Writing for Engineers and Scientists, Prentice Hall
Robson, Colin () How to do a Research Project. A Guide for Undergraduate Students, Blackwell Publishing
Programmes
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Autumn
Spring
Summer
Module Leader:
Martin.J.Hayes@ul.ie
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Module Code - Title:
CE4008 - VLSI DIGITAL PROCESSING SYSTEMS
Year Last Offered:
2018/9
Hours Per Week
Lecture
Lab
Tutorial
Other
Private
Credits
2
2
1
0
8
6
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
EE4817
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
Introduce and use advanced algorithms and architectures for the efficient digital implementation of signal processing algorithms.
Syllabus:
Pipelining and parallel processing. Signal flow graphs, Fine grain pipelining. Block processing. Low power architectures. Fault-tolerant DSP.
Cyclic and acyclic convolution. Digital filter structures. CSD techniques, Distributed arithmetic, Fast convolution algorithms. Parallel FIR filters. Multidimensional convolution. Sampling-rate converters.
Cooley-Tukey FFT, Goertzel algorithm. Bounds on multiplicative complexity. Multidimensional transforms.
Modular arithmetic. Galois field Architectures for multiplication, division and exponentiation.
Trellis and tree searching with the Viterbi algorithm, VLSI structures for the Viterbi decoder. Berlekemp Massey Algorithm for Toeplitz Systems.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Implement efficient solutions for modular arithmetic operations
- Employ appropriate techniques for implementing filtering operations in hardware and software
- Quantify the effects of arithmetic errors for fixed point DSP implementations
- Apply architectural techniques for power reduction
- Describe methods for reducing the complexity of polynomial multiplication