So you want to do a VLSI Project? Part III
Continuing from part I and part II
VLSI (FPGA) Project Topic Selection / List
Like I promised earlier I am putting up some of the FPGA related projects which I feel can be taken up at college level.
I shall split them into 3 different types depending on infrastructure that’s required. Why I am doing this is because most of these projects would lend themselves to be coded pretty easily (comparatively) but it’s the infrastructure that required to get them working and SHOW that they are working on hardware that might become the stumbling block.
Simple Arithmetic
- Parity prediction in adders
- Protocol converters (eg:Manchester to UART)
- Multiplier
- 4 bit Processors
- CRC Generator
- Reed-Solomon Decoder
Since they are all Simple arithmetic blocks , once coded they can be easily demonstrated in hardware using input switches and output LED’s that are present in most FPGA kits. Also the thing that should be kept in mind to keep their scale low (like a 4 bit word length for a processor rather than 8 bit) so that proving them on hardware is possible. If the scale increases it would be a bit hard to prove them on hardware since the pins of the FPGA are limited .You might have to think of innovative interfacing solutions like parallel to serial conversion inside the FPGA and reverse once outside using MSI shift-register chips etc
Protocols
- I2C (Master or Slave operation)
- SPI (Master or Slave operation)
- I2S
- JTAG
- UART
Here again the coding will not be an issue (not to take it lightly, but harder things are ahead) the stumbling block can be validation of the logic on FPGA. Since we need to be able to show that your chip is able to work seamlessly with the standard you would have to interface it with another device that operates in the protocol and prove that they can communicate. So along with the work on the HDL design you would have start working on the validation environment. Also interfacing, clocking etc would be harder. Also a logical oscilloscope can be very useful while debugging on hardware and access to one is an important criterion to select these kinds of projects
Application Based
- Image Watermarking on FPGA
- Traffic Signal
- Industrial Safely System
- Your Brilliant idea
In some ways, these are the safest projects to take. Here what you do is take a real life problem and solve it using electronics. You define the context of the pins and digital logic. Like a pin going high can indicate the activation of a safety latch to prevent a nuclear reactor from explosion 
Only difference between an ordinary electronic project and VLSI would be that the core logic that solves the practical problem would be implemented in FPGA. The actual logic to be implemented in the FPGA can be as simple as a string of ring counters or complex state machines depending on the problem that you are trying to solve AND how you propose to solve it. Also since the main idea is to (unleash your creativity and) get familiarized with FPGA flow and FPGA’s don’t lend into small form factors - a lot of packaging (“product-worthiness”) related issues are sorted ,which would have arisen if the project had been done using components like micro-controllers and discrete components. (In the VIVA you can say that you are using the FPGA as a prototype and can go into mass production of smaller ASIC’S once the practicality is proved on FPGA :P)
As you can see my main aim was not to provide a comprehensive list of projects, which I feel is something that should be left to your imagination, but try to classify the projects based on the difficulties and infrastructure required so that you can make a informed decision which choosing the topic. I hope that this was helpful and please do leave a comment to share your experiences.
Hi,
I m going to do my project based on vlsi.
The project in my mind right now is implementation of ADC and DAC on one FPGA.
I wanted to buy FPGA kit. So what specification should be considered before buying kit.
Comment by viz — September 13, 2007 @ 5:53 pm
Hi,
It is good to hear that you guys are taking the initiative up and buying a FPGA kit. I am sure that since you guys have started looking at the various FPGA kits, you must be going thru their data sheets.
For selecting a FPGA kit for a specific project, the things you must consider are
1) Number of LED’s / input switches
2) The clock frequency (in case your project is some protocol that requires some particular timing)
3) does it have a PLL (in case your design requires it. mostly protocol based designs or some other timing critical designs should require the same)
4) NUMBER OF GATES. this is very important since it will decide whether or not your design can be accommodated in the FPGA. so the thing to do is to get a rough estimate of the number of gate required and get a FPGA that has considerably greater gate(the estimated gate count should be roughly 60%-70% of the available gate count of the FPGA) count so that any overflow/additional features can also be accommodated.
5) Also in case your doing a project where the timing interfacing with the external world is important you need to see the timing limits of the I/O ports of the FPGA kit you are planning to buy.
As far as your ADC/DAC converter, I am interested to know how you are planning to do it using a FPGA? A ADC/DAC is essentially a mixed signal chip and a FPGA is a digital chip. If I am missing something please do let me know.
Hope this helps
Comment by cafm — September 13, 2007 @ 6:59 pm
Can you tell us where can we buy FPGA board India.
I have few board that are affordable but dont know they are good enough. If you can tell us that would be great.
Digilent Spartan 3E Starter Board :- http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=S3EBOARD&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable
Digilent Basys System Board:-
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=BASYS&Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable
or any other board from here:-
http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Catalog.cfm?Nav1=Products&Nav2=Programmable&Cat=Programmable%20Logic
Thank You.
Comment by viz — September 21, 2007 @ 11:06 am
Can you tell us where can we buy FPGA board India.
I have few board that are affordable but dont know they are good enough. If you can tell us that would be great.
Comment by viz — September 21, 2007 @ 11:11 am
Digilent Spartan 3E Starter Board
Digilent Basys System BoardThank You.
Comment by viz — September 21, 2007 @ 11:14 am
Hi Viz,
I dont have much experience with buying boards. I think it will be dictated by your project specific requirements. I think Xilinx boards are cheaper than Ultra. The Spartan 3E is a good option for simple projects I have do idea about Diligent.
I think http://www.avnet.co.in/em/ is a good site.
Hope this helps
Comment by cafm — September 24, 2007 @ 11:57 am
I am doing B.E in Electronics&comm. I am going to do the project based on VLSI. Now i don’t know about.So u give ideas or methods to me soon.
Comment by P.VINOTHKUMAR — September 27, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
I want to do a vlsi project in vhdl for a fulltime of 3 months.can u suggest me any topics in the present world scenario. we are 3 people who are going to implement 1 project.suggest me a project so that we can do on our own .i am doing pg diploma in vlsi in cdac institute.
Comment by Uday Kumar G — October 5, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
Hi Uday & Vinoth Kumar,
Please read thru the post I have done exactly what you have asked
also take a look at part 1 and part 2 too….that might also help
Comment by cafm — October 5, 2007 @ 4:37 pm
hello sir i wants to do the engineering project in vlsi ,so i request you to send the info about that titles and abstract.
Comment by palani — October 9, 2007 @ 9:15 am
Hi All,
I do not have any abstracts or other info,…all the things I thought would help you guys out I have put in these posts. So please refrain from asking for the same.
If you need any specific help, plz mail me and I can look into what I can do.
Cafm
Comment by cafm — October 9, 2007 @ 9:17 am
Hello sir,
I am doing B.E in Electronics&comm. I am going to do final year project based on VLSI. Now i know something about VLSI.So u give me some project titles and ideas soon.
Thankyou sir
Comment by J.RENUKADEVI — October 13, 2007 @ 8:03 am
Hello sir,
I am doing B.E in Electronics&comm. I am going to do final year project based on VLSI. Now i know something about VLSI.So u give me some project titles and ideas soon.
Thankyou sir
Comment by sunil — December 13, 2007 @ 8:39 pm
Hello sir,we are 3 people who are going to implement 1 project and we are decided to do a project on “digital watermarking on FPGA” which is based on VLSI.so can you please give us some information regarding our project.
Thankyou sir
Comment by Somasekhar.V — December 19, 2007 @ 10:05 am
Hello sir,
I am doing B.E in Electronics&comm. I am going to do final year project based on VLSI. Now i know something about VLSI.So u give me some project titles and ideas soon.please sent to me sir.
Thankyou sir
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Comment by cafm — January 16, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Hello sir,
I am doing B.E in Electronics&comm. I am going to do final year project based on VLSI. Now i know something about VLSI.So u give me some project titles and ideas soon.
Thankyou sir
Comment by ankit sharma — February 4, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
Hello sir,
I am doing B.E in Electronics&comm. I am going to do final year project based on VLSI. Now i know something about VLSI.So u give me some project titles and ideas soon.
Thankyou
Comment by ankit sharma — February 4, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
Hello sir,
I am doing B.E in Electronics&comm. I am going to do final year project based on VLSI. plz can u suggest me some ideas & abstract regarding d prjct
Comment by ankit sharma — February 4, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
Dear Sir,
Iam really thankful to you for providing such informations about projects in VLSI.I have got a real idea about VLSI project after visiting your site.I have just completed my Mtech 1st year and Iam in immediate need of a project for my next academic session.My project duration will be of 1 year.Sir I’ll be very grateful if you could suggest me some project ideas,abstract,duration and the infrastructure needed for the project on VLSI.
Thank you,
Sudha Nair.
Comment by sudha nair — June 27, 2008 @ 1:32 pm
hi sir
its really feeling great to know the basics steps for vlsi based projects ..i m a newbie in this field so thanks for ur all part off information…can u suggest some sites that could also help to understand vlsi based projects ….
Comment by prashant — July 21, 2008 @ 11:11 pm
hello sir,
i planned to do my final year projects in vlsi ,i know little things about vlsi ,can u give your valuble guidance to us to do a final yearproject
Comment by rajesh — July 24, 2008 @ 10:31 am
hello sir,
i want to do the project on vlsi,so kindly sent some projects titles with abstract&also say current scenioro on vlsi..
thanking u
Comment by bala — July 31, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
hi sir,I want to do my project in VLSI field.i need some titel.i m the new for this field sir so i need some website to understand the basics of vlsi.
Comment by suganya.c — August 7, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
sir,
I am studying final year b.tech in ec stream.I need projects in fields like vlsi and embedded systems. I have almost 7 months so can u suggest me some good projects.
thanking you
Comment by hemanthkaja — August 9, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
hai, can any one help me to give an idea in vlsi projects, and about the latest topics that can be used for projrct.
Comment by jerin — August 15, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
dear sir,
im doing my final year B.E(ECE).i have an interest towards vlsi and want my final year project to be done on the same, but i dont know how to go about it.it would be really very helpful if you would furnish some latest titles,abstract and how to go about the project….. eagerly awaiting your reply……
regards,
Dhivya Rekha.S
Comment by dhivya rekha.s — August 22, 2008 @ 6:33 pm
Sir,
I am interested to do my project in VLSI Physical design for my MTech final year. Can you help in suggesting few names of projects and their details.
Thanking you,
with regards,
Ahmed zakiuddin
Comment by AHMED ZAKI UDDIN — September 19, 2008 @ 4:09 pm
Sir,
I am in my final year of ME. I am interested to do my project in VLSI Physical design. Please can you give me some project titles and their details.
Comment by Medari Swetha — September 19, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
hello sir,
i want to do the project on vlsi,so kindly sent some projects titles with abstract&also say current scenioro on vlsi..
thanking u
Comment by Y.Shilpa — September 22, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
Sir,
I am interested to do my project in VLSI Physical design for my MTech final year. Can you help in suggesting few names of projects and their details.
Thanking you,
with regards,
Comment by Anil kumar k — September 23, 2008 @ 11:59 am
i am making project on vlsi in RF so provide me some guidance or website tu search on it.
Comment by jayantingale — September 25, 2008 @ 7:49 pm
hi i’m doing final year ECE, in my final year project we are decided to do in vlsi. we are 3 members in my group. can you give me a good,new/ innovative topic in vlsi ?
Comment by parthi — October 21, 2008 @ 6:25 am
dear sir,
im doing my final year B.E(ECE).i have an interest towards vlsi and want my final year project to be done on the same, but i dont know how to go about it.it would be really very helpful if you would furnish some latest titles,abstract and how to go about the project….. eagerly awaiting your reply……
Comment by kumaraswamy — November 4, 2008 @ 7:43 pm
Sir,
I am in my final year of ME. I am interested to do my project in VLSI Physical design. Please can you give me some project titles and their details.
Comment by kumaraswamy — November 4, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
sir
i want to vlsi projects..i am studying final year be..so plese give some project tittles and synopsis..which is possible to do in college level..
Regards,
kumaraswamy
Comment by kumaraswamy — November 4, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
dear sir,
im doing my final year B.E(ECE).i have an interest towards vlsi and want my final year project to be done on the same, but i dont know how to go about it.it would be really very helpful if you would furnish some latest titles,abstract and how to go about the project….. eagerly awaiting your reply……
Comment by emma — November 17, 2008 @ 8:09 am
Sir,
I’m doing my final yr B.E ECE.I wish to do my project in VLSI.I’ve choosen the topic “image watermarking on FPGA”.So please send me abstract of the project and how i would proceed to that
Comment by lakshmi priyaa — December 10, 2008 @ 9:58 am
sir iam a final yr student .i like to do projects in vlsi can u offer me some ideas about the titles please sir.
Comment by yogaselvi — December 10, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
sir iam studying final year ECE iam doing project vlsi based please sent title my mail address
Comment by siva kumar — January 5, 2009 @ 11:50 am