GPS Waypoint Navigation

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GPS Waypoint Navigation

• Team M-2
• Charles Norman (M2-1)
• Julio Segundo (M2-2)
• Nan Li (M2-3)
• Shanshan Ma (M2-4)
• Design Manager Zack Menegakis

Presentation 12 Short Final Presentation April
26, 2006
Overall Project Objective Design a low-power
chip that navigates an aircraft to pre-determined
waypoints.
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Status

• Design Proposal
• Architecture Proposal
• Size Estimates / Floorplan
• Gate-Level Design
• Spice Simulations (Schematic Layout)
• Power
• Delays
• Functional Block Verification
• Timing Verification
• Layout (DRC LVS)
• Functional Blocks
• Global (99)

By Charles
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Marketing

• What is a GPS Waypoint Navigator?
• Uses Applications
• Hardware VS Software
• Very low-power
• Compact

2 Slides
By Charles
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Design Process

• Description
• Requirements
• Math
• High-Level Simulations
• Behavioral Verilog
• Structural Verilog
• Schematics
• Layout

5 Slides
By Nan
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Algorithm Description

• Brief overview
• How it works?
• Clock Breakdown
• Why so many???
• System Flow
• System Inputs ? Blackbox Outputs ? Blackbox
  Inputs ? SystemOutputs

15 Slides
By Shanshan / Julio
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Verification

• MATLAB
• Behavior Verilog
• Structural Verilog
• Schematics
• Begin timing verification serialization
• Layout
• Timing (post layout)

10 Slides
By Julio
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Floorplan Evolution

• Original Floorplans
• Description
• Why were they modified/scrapped?
• Latest Floorplan
• Description
• Why is it acceptable?

5 Slides
By Shanshan
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Layout

• Layer Masks
• Full chip layout
• Full chip layout w/ overlaid floorplan

8 Slides
By Nan
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Issues Solutions

• Grouping Re-grouping
• Initial I/O count gt 200 ? Serialization
• Architecture Complexity
• Trade off between I/O pins accuracy
• 1 ft. Accuracy ? 4 Clocks
• Chip Interface (i.e. unit conversions)
• Blackbox or no Blackbox???
• Overall Design Size
• Transistor Count
• Bus Sizes / Buffers
• ECE File Space
• Power
• Simulations
• Cadence

3 Slides
By Charles
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Specifcations

• Pin Specs
• Circuit Specs
• Transistor Counts
• Area
• Density
• Delays
• Why they dont mean anything???
• Power

3 Slides
By Charles
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Conclusion
1 Slide
By Charles
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Updates

• Layout 99 done as of 85959am this morning
• Finished analog sims for all functional blocks
• Cadence limits our top-level testing capabilities

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Questions
Total Slides 54 Slides