Use of state of the art ECAD design tools in highinnovative studies

Author

Dirk, V.M. ; Peter, Adrian ; Van Bauwel, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Technol., Thomas More Univ. Coll., Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

fYear

2013

fDate

19-23 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

79

Abstract

ECAD techniques are indispensible in the design of electronic boards and micro-electronics. Students - tomorrow´s young professionals in electronics design and engineering - should have the opportunity to study and work with these techniques. An integrated approach to combine design, functional verification, signal integrity, board layout and system-on-chip design is necessary for fast and first-time-right design. This paper presents a case study in which students were able to design, build and test a complex 4-layer PCB-board in a small time-slot of only 6 weeks with a Spartan 3AN FPGA with flash memory on board. The goal of the design is to provide a base board for digital system design.

Keywords

field programmable gate arrays; flash memories; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit layout; logic design; printed circuit layout; printed circuit testing; system-on-chip; technology CAD (electronics); ECAD design tool technique; Spartan 3AN FPGA; board layout; complex 4-layer PCB- board; digital system design; electronic base board design; flash memory on board; functional verification; microelectronics design; signal integrity; system-on-chip design; time 6 week; Assembly; Educational institutions; Field programmable gate arrays; Libraries; Routing; Solid modeling; Three-dimensional displays; Altium Designer; ECAD; PCB-design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Experience of Designing and Application of CAD Systems in Microelectronics (CADSM), 2013 12th International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Polyana Svalyava

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6461-4

Type

conf

Filename

6543195