Syllabus for

VLSI SIGNAL PROCESSING

(Direct Study)

UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO DSP SYSTEMS

Introduction to DSP systems , Typical DSP algorithms – convolution, correlation, digital filters,
adaptive filters, Viterbi algorithm, DSP applications demands and scaled CMOS technologies, Data
flow and Dependence graphs – critical

UNIT 2: PIPELINING AND PARALLEL PROCESSING

Introduction, pipelining for digital FIR filter, parallel processing – designing a parallel FIR system,
pipelining and parallel processing for low power, retiming, Algorithmic strength reduction in filters
and transforms – 2-parallel FIR filter, 2-parallel fast FIR filter, parallel architectures for rank order
filters.
UNIT 3: BIT-LEVEL ARITHMETIC ARCHITECTURES

Bit-level arithmetic architectures – parallel multipliers with sign extension, parallel carry-ripple and
carry-save multipliers, Design of Lyon’s bit-serial multipliers using Horner’s rule, bit-serial FIR filter,
Canonical Signed Digit representation, CSD multiplication using Horner’s rule for precision
improvement, Distributed Arithmetic fundamentals – ROM decomposition for distribution arithmetic
and FIR filters.
UNIT 4: REDUNDANT ARITHMETIC AND NUMERICAL STRENGTH REDUCTION

Introduction, redundant number representations, carry free radix-2 addition and subtraction, hybrid
radix-4 addition, radix-2 hybrid redundant multiplication architectures, data format conversion,
redundant and non-redundant convertors, multiple constant multiplication- linear transformations,
Additive and multiplicative number splitting.

UNIT 5: PROGRAMMABLE DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS

Introduction, evolution of programmable digital signal processors, important features of DSP

processors, DSP processors for mobile and wireless communications, processors for multimedia
signal processing.

TEXT/ REFERENCE BOOKS

1. Keshab K. Parhi, “VLSI Digital Signal Processing Systems, Design and implementation “,
Wiley, Interscience, 2007.
2. U. Meyer – Baese, “Digital Signal Processing with Field Programmable Gate Arrays”,
Springer, Second Edition, 2004.
3. Douglas A.Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian, “Basic VLSI design”, Prentice Hall India Learning
Private Limited; 3 edition (1995).
4. John G. Proakis, “Introduction to Digital Signal Processing”, Prentice Hall International
Paperback Editions, 4th Edition.
5. Wayne Wolf,” Modern VLSI Design”, Pearson Education India; 4 edition (2015).