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| # | Project Title | Tools / Technology | Domain | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Design and Simulation of 10-Bit 100 MS/s SAR ADC in 180nm CMOS for IoT Sensor Front-End Successive Approximation Register ADC with charge-redistribution DAC, dynamic comparator and binary search logic, optimised for 1.8V supply with ENOB > 9.5 bits verified in Cadence Spectre. |
VirtuosoSpectreTSMC 180nm | ADC / Mixed Signal | MTech / PhD |
| 02 | Low-Power Two-Stage CMOS Operational Amplifier with 80 dB Gain for Biomedical Signal Processing Miller-compensated two-stage OpAmp with PMOS input differential pair on TSMC 90nm. Targets GBW > 10 MHz, PM > 60°, CMRR > 80 dB. Includes Monte Carlo and process corner analysis in ADE XL. |
ADE XLCalibreTSMC 90nm | OpAmp / Analog | MTech / PhD |
| 03 | Design of LC-Tank Voltage Controlled Oscillator for 5G mmWave PLL Applications in 45nm CMOS Differential LC-VCO targeting 28 GHz with varactor tuning, tail current filtering, achieving phase noise <-120 dBc/Hz @1 MHz offset, verified with Cadence SpectreRF periodic steady-state analysis. |
SpectreRFRF CMOSTSMC 45nm | VCO / RF | MTech / PhD |
| 04 | 8T SRAM Bitcell Design with Enhanced Static Noise Margin for Near-Threshold Computing 8T SRAM cell with decoupled read port for improved RSNM. Butterfly curve analysis, word-line boost technique, and array-level power analysis on TSMC 65nm. Complete 64-bit array layout with DRC/LVS sign-off. |
VirtuosoMemory DesignCalibre | SRAM / Memory | MTech / PhD |
| 05 | Design of Low Dropout (LDO) Voltage Regulator with Fast Transient Response for SoC Power Management PMOS-pass LDO with error amplifier, feedback network and frequency compensation targeting 1.2V output, PSRR > 60 dB, load regulation < 2 mV/mA — simulated in Cadence Spectre and laid out using Virtuoso on TSMC 180nm. |
SpectreVirtuosoPower IC | LDO / Power Mgmt | BE / MTech |
| 06 | High-Speed StrongARM Latch Comparator Design for Flash ADC Applications in 65nm CMOS Regenerative latch comparator with pre-amplifier stage. Analysis of offset voltage, propagation delay, metastability, and power at 1 GHz clock rate. Pre/post-layout Spectre simulation with complete ADE XL testbench setup. |
ADE LSpectreTSMC 65nm | Comparator | BE / MTech |
| 07 | Full Custom CMOS Inverter Chain Layout Design with DRC / LVS Verification on 180nm Technology Optimised CMOS inverter chain with tapered buffer sizing, drive strength analysis, propagation delay extraction and post-layout parasitic simulation. Includes complete Cadence Virtuoso layout with Calibre DRC and LVS sign-off report. |
Virtuoso LayoutCalibre LVSDigital IC | Inverter / Digital | BE / BTech |
| 08 | FIR Digital Filter Design for ECG Signal Denoising using MATLAB and FPGA Implementation Parks-McClellan FIR filter for baseline wander and EMG noise removal from ECG signals. MATLAB DSP toolbox design, Verilog HDL implementation, Modelsim simulation and Xilinx FPGA hardware validation with real MIT-BIH arrhythmia dataset. |
MATLABFPGAVerilog | DSP / Biomedical | BE / MTech |
| 09 | Design and VLSI Implementation of 256-point FFT Processor for OFDM Communication Systems Radix-4 Cooley-Tukey FFT architecture with pipeline staging for LTE/5G OFDM. RTL design in Verilog, functional verification in ModelSim, synthesis in Synopsys Design Compiler, and place-and-route in Cadence Innovus on 45nm standard cell library. |
InnovusVerilog / SVDSP / OFDM | DSP / VLSI | MTech / PhD |
| 10 | Low-Power IIR Biquad Filter Bank for Hearing Aid Signal Processing in 90nm CMOS Four-band IIR biquad filterbank with adjustable centre frequencies for speech intelligibility enhancement. Fixed-point arithmetic VLSI datapath, Cadence Genus synthesis, Innovus P&R, and functional silicon validation with MATLAB golden reference model. |
Cadence GenusInnovusMATLAB | DSP / Hearing Aid | MTech / PhD |
| 11 | Reconfigurable Digital Signal Processor Architecture for Multi-Standard Wireless Communication Reconfigurable MAC unit supporting IEEE 802.11ax, 802.16 WiMAX and LTE-A physical layer baseband processing. VLSI synthesis, power analysis using Cadence Joules and physical implementation in Innovus targeting < 0.5 W at 500 MHz. |
Cadence JoulesSystemVerilogInnovus | DSP / Wireless | PhD |
| 12 | Design of a 12-Bit Pipeline ADC with Digital Background Calibration for High-Speed Imaging 1.5-bit/stage pipeline ADC with switched-capacitor MDAC, op-amp sharing and LMS-based digital background calibration for gain and offset error correction. ENOB > 11 bits at 200 MS/s in Cadence Spectre with ADE XL sweep analysis. |
ADE XLSpectreSC Circuits | ADC / Imaging | MTech / PhD |
| 13 | Adaptive Noise Cancellation Using LMS Algorithm — MATLAB Simulation and FPGA Real-Time Implementation LMS adaptive filter for acoustic echo and industrial noise cancellation. MATLAB simulation, fixed-point analysis, parallel Verilog hardware implementation and real-time validation on Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA with audio codec interface. |
MATLAB / SimulinkXilinx FPGAVerilog | DSP / Adaptive | BE / MTech |
| 14 | Bandgap Voltage Reference Circuit Design with Sub-1% Variation Across −40 to 125°C in 180nm CTAT/PTAT compensated bandgap reference with op-amp error correction targeting 1.2 V output with TC < 10 ppm/°C. Full temperature sweep, process corner analysis and layout extraction in Cadence Virtuoso with Spectre post-layout simulation. |
VirtuosoSpectreADE L | Bandgap / Analog | MTech / PhD |
| 15 | VLSI Design of AES-128 Encryption Core with Low-Latency Pipelined Architecture for IoT Security Fully pipelined 128-bit AES encryption/decryption engine with composite field S-box for area optimisation. Verilog RTL, formal verification with Cadence JasperGold, synthesis with DC, P&R with Innovus, targeting 1 Gbps throughput at 150 MHz. |
JasperGoldInnovusVLSI Security | Digital / Security | MTech / PhD |
| 16 | Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) Controller Design for Low-Power SoC in 65nm RTL design of DVFS controller with on-chip performance monitor, look-up table based operating point selection and interface to LDO regulator and PLL. Cadence Genus synthesis, Innovus physical implementation with multi-voltage design constraints. |
Cadence GenusInnovusLow Power | Power / SoC | MTech / PhD |
| 17 | Sigma-Delta Modulator Design for 24-Bit High-Resolution Audio ADC in Cadence Spectre Second-order CIFF Sigma-Delta modulator with oversampling ratio of 128, DT switched-capacitor architecture, shaped quantisation noise achieving SNR > 100 dB for audio frequencies. Noise transfer function analysis and MATLAB behavioural vs Spectre comparison. |
SpectreMATLABADE XL | ADC / Audio DSP | PhD |
| 18 | VLSI Implementation of Convolutional Neural Network Accelerator for Edge AI on 28nm CMOS Systolic-array CNN inference accelerator for image classification supporting ResNet-8 on CIFAR-10. RTL in SystemVerilog, Cadence Stratus HLS, synthesis and P&R in Innovus with power analysis in Cadence Joules targeting < 50 mW at 200 MHz. |
Stratus HLSAI AcceleratorInnovus | AI / Edge VLSI | PhD |
| 19 | Charge Pump Phase-Locked Loop (CP-PLL) Design for Clock Synthesis in 180nm CMOS CP-PLL with phase-frequency detector, charge pump, loop filter, LC-VCO and programmable divider. IEEE project covering lock time, reference spurs, jitter analysis and integer-N frequency synthesis covering 1–3 GHz in Cadence SpectreRF. |
SpectreRFPLL / RFVirtuoso | PLL / Clocking | MTech / PhD |
| 20 | Deep Learning Based EEG Signal Classification with Custom VLSI DSP Accelerator on TSMC 45nm End-to-end system: EEG pre-processing with adaptive FIR bank in MATLAB, CNN feature extraction, and custom VLSI fixed-point inference engine. Cadence Genus synthesis, Innovus P&R, power integrity analysis, and wearable BCI application validation. |
MATLABDeep LearningInnovus | AI / DSP / BCI | PhD |
| 21 | Ultra-Low-Power CMOS Ring Oscillator Design for IoT Energy Harvesting Applications in 90nm Five-stage CMOS ring oscillator with supply-insensitive biasing and frequency calibration, targeting 100 MHz ± 2% at 0.6 V supply. Power consumption analysis, start-up condition verification and post-layout extraction in Cadence Virtuoso. |
VirtuosoSpectreUltra-Low Power | VCO / IoT | BE / MTech |
| 22 | CORDIC Algorithm VLSI Implementation for Real-Time Trigonometric Computation in DSP Applications Iterative CORDIC processor in rotation mode for sine/cosine/arctangent computation. 16-bit fixed-point Verilog design, pipeline optimisation for 500 MHz operation, Modelsim verification, Cadence Genus synthesis and FPGA prototype validation on Basys 3. |
VerilogDSP / CORDICFPGA | DSP / Math | BE / MTech |
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