TSTE87 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Datateknik, Elektroteknik
Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
Active · next start VT 2027
83%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 3 Jun 2026 · 18 students
76%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 80 students
83%
Harder than 83% of courses at advanced level
Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 39 students.
Part of 5 programmes
Exam
TEN1 Written Examination
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Ordinary exams
76% passed · 80 students
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Re-exams
42% passed · 19 students
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- Pass the re-exam: 42% (19 students), compared with 76% (80 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 37% (99 students)
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory Work
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Main rounds
100% passed · 76 students
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Later rounds
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Other module
MUN1 Optional Oral Examination
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Main rounds
100% passed · 40 students
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Other module
MUN2 Optional Oral Examination
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 35 students
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Later rounds
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About the course
Aim
General methods and principles used for designing and implementing application specific integrated circuits are presented. The emphasis is put on a systematic design methodology going from system specification down to complete integrated circuit. After completing the course you are expected to be able to:
- Analyze computational properties of signal processing algorithms
- Determine resource requirements for implementation of signal processing algorithms
- Determine the suitability of different types of architectures for implementation of signal processing algorithms
- Synthesize nearly optimal architectures
- Realize and evaluate different types of processing elements
- Determine limits on the obtainable data rate
- Determine a computational order of operations
- Compute the latency and execution time of operations and determine the impact of these properties
- Determine computational graphs and optimize schedules
- Define and analyze different types of optimality in parts of the design flow
- Determine and optimize resource allocation and resource assignment
- Synthesize and analyze different architectures for signal processing systems
- Realize different types of processing elements using different arithemtic styles
Content
System design and implementation using VLSI-technology or FPGA-technology of some signal processing applications, e.g., digital filters, FFT, and DCT. System specification, system architecture, analysis of computing properties of DSP algorithms. Synthesis of optimal DSP architectures. Conventional implementation methodologies. Processing elements and arithmetic. Implementation aspects.
- Examiner
- Oscar Gustafsson
- Scheduled hours
- 68 h
- Main field of study
- Datateknik, Elektroteknik