M.E.

DEGREE EXAMINATION, JUNE 2010

VLSI Design

First Semester

Question Paper Code: J7792

Reg. No. :

VL9211 DSP INTEGRATED CIRCUITS

(Common to M.E. Applied Electronics)
(Regulation 2009)
Time : Three hours

Maximum : 100 Marks

Answer ALL Questions

PART A (10 2 = 20 Marks)

What is MOS logic?

2.

Name any two standard digital signal processors.

3.

State the Nyquist sampling theorem.

4.

Draw the structure of the following difference equation

1.

y(n ) = ax (n ) + y(n 1) .

What are parasitic oscillations?

6.

What are Multirate filters?

7.

What are systolic arrays?

8.

What are Multicomputers?

9.

What is Residue Number System?

10.

Draw the structure of Basic Shift Accumulator.

5.

(a)

Explain in detail various VLSI process technologies.

Or

(16)

11.

PART B (5 16 = 80 Marks)

(b)
(a)

(i)

Explain the radix2 DIF-FFT algorithm in detail.

(ii)

Find DFT of x (n ) = {0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3} using radix2 DIT FFT

algorithm.
(8)
Or

(16)
(8)

12.

Explain the trends in CMOS technologies.

(b)
13.

Explain the algorithm for finding discrete cosine transform.

(16)

(a)

Explain the procedure for the design of IIR filter using Chebyshevs
approximation.
(16)

Or

14.

What is Multirate system? Explain decimation, interpolation and

combination of both for getting multirate sampling.
(16)

(a)

Write down the standard procedure for mapping of DSP algorithms onto
hardware.
(16)

(b)

(b)

Or

(a)

Distinguish standard DSP architecture and ideal DSP architecture. (8)

(ii)
15.

(i)

Explain shared memory architecture in detail.

(8)

Write short notes on the following :

(i)

Complex multipliers.

(8)

(ii)

Improved shift accumulator.

(8)

Draw and explain the layout of VLSI circuit for FFT processor.

(b)

Or
(16)

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