Design of the Hadamard Coprocessor with the Alliance CAD System Carried by Post-Graduating Students

Abstract

University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, offers a one-year course on Advanced CAD and VLSI design for post graduate students (DEA ASIME, DESS CISAN). This course starts with a general introduction to circuit and system architecture and a presentation of ALLIANCE[ 1 ], the educational CAD system developed by the ASIM team of the university. This first part lasts 4 weeks and aims to settle the basic knowledge necessary to follow a more specific course focusing on either CAD tools design, Circuit design , or System design. In between, a 3-weeks project is proposed to allow the students practicing the concepts presented earlier. Depending on the students option, the project consists in implementing either a MIPS R3000[2] or the Hadamard coprocessor[3]. This paper presents the Hadamard project with a special focus on the methodology followed by the students from specification to layout.KeywordsRegister FileHadamard MatrixVLSI DesignStructural ViewPost Graduate StudentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.