This document discusses features of VLSI chips including compactness, speed, ease of maintenance, and cost effectiveness. It describes Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors on chips doubles every two years, causing computer performance to double every 18 months. The digital design flow includes RTL coding, synthesis, floorplanning, placement, routing, and verification. Programming languages for digital design include VHDL and Verilog HDL. RAM is used as working memory and has faster access times than hard disks, measured in nanoseconds versus milliseconds. The document outlines program logic for reading from and writing to RAM and detecting when it is empty or full.

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Features of VLSI:
Compactness.
Speed of access.
Ease of maintenance.
Cost effective.
Life of the product.

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Gordon Moore’s (in 1965) said that transistors on a
chip would double every year.
He then recalibrated it to every two years in 1975.
 David House, an Intel executive at the time, noted
that the changes would cause computer performance
to double every18 months for a foreseeable future.
MOORE’S LAW:

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DIGITAL DESIGN FLOW:
 RTL Coding
 synthesis
 Floor planning
 Placement
 Clock routing
 Routing
 Physical verification
Front end
(Logical design)
Back end
(physical design)

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Programming Languages
 VHDL
 VERILOG HDL

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RAM:
RAM is our working memory storage. All the data, which the PC
uses and works with during operation, are stored here. Data are stored on
drives, typically the hard drive. However, for the CPU to work with those
data, they must be read into the working memory storage, which is made
up of RAM chips.

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RAM access time is in nanoseconds,
Hard disk access time is in milliseconds.

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If reset is switched high
Output is set to ‘0’.
If is in write mode
The i/p is assigned to write pointer of RAM.
If is in write mode
The read pointer of RAM is assigned to o/p.
Program Logic:

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If value of read pointer and write pointer is same then it is
defined to be empty.
If write location is 31 locations next to read [3:0] then it is
defined to be full.
Program Logic:

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If both read mode and write mode are switched high and
both pointers specify same location then we need send an
error message.
Program Logic:

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Technical schematic of RAM :

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