Assignment - 2 and CIE2 Portion Advanced VLSI - 24 - 25
Assignment - 2 and CIE2 Portion Advanced VLSI - 24 - 25
Assignment - II
Semester: VII(A, B, and C) Date: 11/11/2024
Subject: Advanced VLSI Sub code: 21EC71
Q. Questions Course PO Bloom’s
No. Outcome Cognitive
Level
1 Explain about the following: Goals and objectives of 1.Floor CO2 & 1 L2
planning 2. Placement and 3. Routing CO3
2 Explain the global routing methods in an ASIC physical design CO2 & 1 L2
CO3
3 Explain global routing between blocks with neat diagram CO2 & 1 L2
CO3
4 Explain the approaches of minimizing delay in circuit placement CO2 & 1 L2
CO3
5 Explain the following placement algorithms: 1. Constructive CO2 & 1 L2
placement 2. Iterative placement improvement CO3
6 Explain the following in ASIC floor plan 1. Clock planning 2. CO2 & 1 L2
Power planning CO3
16 Write a short note on various user defined data types with examples CO5 1 L2
17 Explain the constants and strings in system verilog with examples CO5 1 L2
Jain College of Engineering, Belagavi
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Module 2:
Floor planning and placement: Goals and objectives, Measurement of delay in Floor planning,
Floor planning tools, Channel definition, I/O and Power planning and Clock planning. Placement:
Goals and Objectives, Min-cut Placement algorithm, Iterative Placement Improvement, Time
driven placement methods, Physical Design Flow.
Routing: Global Routing: Goals and objectives, Global Routing Methods, Global routing between
blocks, Back annotation.
Module 3:
Verification Guidelines: The verification process, basic test bench functionality, directed testing,
methodology basics, constrained random stimulus, randomization, functional coverage, test bench
components, layered testbench.
Data Types: Built in Data types, fixed and dynamic arrays, Queues, associative arrays, linked lists,
array methods, choosing a type, creating new types with type def, creating user defined structures,
type conversion, Enumerated types, constants and strings, Expression width.