VLSI Broadband Communication Circuits, Aug-Dec 2007: Assignments

Assignments

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1. Current mode logic design: HW1
2. Channel response, ISI, linear equalizers: HW2
3. Transmitter and equalizer design: HW3
4. Adaptive equalizer design: HW4
5. Clock and data recovery building blocks: HW5
6. Clock and data recovery circuits: HW6

Assignment submission

Submit all solutions by email as a single pdf file.

• You can use a wordprocessor of your choice and convert the result to a pdf file.
• If you have multiple files, you can use pdftk to combine them. This is installed under /usr/local in VLSI and TI labs. Documentation can be found at /usr/local/doc/pdftk/pdftk.1.html
• Another way to generate a pdf is to concatenate ps(postscript) files containing all figures and text(use enscript to convert text to ps) to a single ps file. Run ps2pdf on this file to get a pdf file.
  enscript -p p1.txt.ps p1.txt
  enscript -p p2.txt.ps p2.txt
  cat p1.txt.ps fig1.ps p2.txt.ps fig2.ps > out.ps
  ps2pdf out.ps eexxxxxx_hw01.pdf
  
• Name your file with your id as eexxxxxx_hw01.pdf so that it is easier for me to keep track of.
• Put your name and roll number on the first page. For joint submissions, put all the names on the first page and submit a single email.
• Regardless of the order in which you do the problems, rearrange the solutions in the right order in the submission.
• N people submitting jointly will all receive 2^(N-1)/2 times the graded credit for the assignment.
• Joint work masquerading as individual submissions(a.k.a. copying) will result in a zero on the assignments.