Top IEEE VLSI Engineering Projects For Final Year Students with Source Code

The field that has accelerated the most in electronics is VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration), in which construction and design of integrated circuits (ICs) form the core of this field. Thus, what can be called the last project, the choice by the final-year students in VLSI engineering, is very much a factor in showing skills and gaining invaluable exposure for the future. So, in this blog, I talk about some of the Top IEEE VLSI engineering projects for final-year students and also present you some resources for starting with source code and design ideas.

1. Design of Low-Power Multipliers

Project Overview: Multipliers are fundamental to several mathematical and signal processing operations. Power consumption has, however, become a major issue, particularly in portable and battery-operated devices. The design of this project aims at the development of a low-power multiplier intended for energy-efficient performance but capable of delivering fast operation.

The main things:

• Verilog/VHDL for hardware description

• FPGA for Implementation

• Power estimation tools (for example: Xilinx power estimator).
You can design different types of multipliers using Verilog such as an array multiplier, Wallace Tree multiplier, or Booth's multiplier. Implement the design in an FPGA (Xilinx or Altera) and witness how it contributes to the power savings in the real-world scenario.

About Source Code: The power consumed on chip is demonstrated by implementing designs onto FPGA (Xilinx or Altera) to observe the real-time reduction achieved. This is the best possibility to create as many types of multipliers using Verilog, such as an array multiplier, Wallace tree multiplier, or multiplier type Booth.

2. FPGA-based Digital Clock Design

Project Overview: A digital clock is a generic new project for VLSI students that holds many aspects inside time-keeping, display interfacing, and digital design. The students have to design a simple yet functional digital clock on FPGA.

Critical Ingredients:

• FPGA for functional implementation (Xilinx/Altera)

• Time-counting logic in Verilog or VHDL

• Controlling Driver for 7-segment

 

Code: This project can be introduced in Verilog, having a frequency divider and display section controlling the 7-segment display that represents time.

3. Matrix Multiplication Using FPGA

An Overview of the Project: The most common operation across applications like scientific computing and image processing is matrix multiplication. Since this operation can be implemented easily on an FPGA, it uses an exploit of parallelism, thus making the computations much faster.

Key Components:  FPGA (Xilinx/Altera) for parallel matrix multiplication Verilog/VHDL Memory management (for handling large matrices). Source Code: You may write a Verilog code for parallel multiplication of matrices breaking down the matrix multiplication process into small sub-modules for high-speed operation.

4. Digital Filter (FIR/IIR) Design

Project Summary: Digital filters are important for signal processing. An FIR (Finite Impulse Response) or IIR (Infinite Impulse Response) filter should be designed in VLSI for noise removal or smoothing of signal.

Major Components:

• Filter Design Process using Verilog/VHDL

• Filter Implementation using FPGA hardware acceleration

• Filter Design Analysis using MATLAB

Source Code: The students are required to implement either an FIR or an IIR filter using Verilog by designing suitable filter coefficients and optimizing the hardware architecture for efficient processing.

5. Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) Design

Project Overview: The ALU is one of the bedrock blocks of any processor. This project is all about designing a 4-bit or 8-bit ALU for arithmetic and logical operations including addition, subtraction, AND, OR, XOR, etc.

Basic:

Verilog/VHDL for logical design; FPGA for implementation; Basic arithmetic and logic functions

The tasks being performed by the ALU can be described in Verilog using different modules for each operation (addition, subtraction, etc.) and with a control unit to choose the operation. A test bench can be created to check that the ALU works as expected.

6. RISC Processor Design

Project Overview: Creating the Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC) processor involves the implementation of acquired knowledge about digital logic, control units, and memory. This processor type is quite simple and fast, making it a good option as a final-year project.

Key elements include:

• Verilog/VHDL for RISC architecture

• Control unit design

• Memory interfacing and instruction set architecture, or ISA

Source Code: The project can involve developing a simple 4-stage pipeline processor written in Verilog including instruction fetch, decode, execute, and write back stages.

7. FPGA-based FFT Processor

Project Summary: Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is a common algorithm widely applied in digital signal processing. The goal of this project is the design and implementation of a very high-speed FFT processor on FPGA for rapid frequency-domain analysis.

Key Components:

• Verilog/VHDL employed for FFT implementation

• FPGAs that could be manufactured by either Xilinx or Altera

• Signal processing methodologies

The code can be written in Verilog to implement FFT algorithms such as the Radix-2 Decimation-in-Time FFT. An interface can also be developed to input data and visualize the output.

8. Floating Point Adder Design

Floating point arithmetic is necessary for applications where the highest possible accuracy is required, like in scientific calculations. Hence, this project is the design of a floating-point adder in VLSI.

Salient Features:

• Verilog/VHDL for floating point representation

• FPGA Implementation

• IEEE 754 standard for floating point arithmetic     

In this work, the design coding is accomplished in the 3D Verilog programming language, making a floating-point 32-bit adder consistent with the IEEE 754 standard, taking care of normalization, rounding, and exception situations.

9. UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) Design

Overview of Project:

UART is an extensively used serial communication protocol. Design of UART in VLSI can provide an important understanding of serial data transmission and reception, and would become an important project.

Main Components:

• Implementation of UART protocol in Verilog/VHDL

• FPGA serve the purpose of hardware testing

• Serial communication protocols

Source Code: The code for the background Verilog modules of both the transmitter and receiver would be defined. The application can also include implementing a baudrate generator, data for framing, and checking for the parity bits.

10. Error Correction Code (ECC) System Design

Project Overview: Error correction is vital for data integrity, especially in the field of communication systems. The basic aim of this project is to develop an 8-bit error correction code (ECC) system for detecting and correcting errors incurred in data transmission.

Main ingredients are:

• Using Verilog/VHDL arithmetic and logic units (ALUs) component for ECC implementation

• Testing with FPGA

• Embed Hamming code or BCH code

Source Code: The assignment may include a Verilog implementation for encoding and decoding data using error correction schemes like Hamming code. The code should check and correct single-bit errors.

Conclusion

There lies an opportunity in selection of an appropriate VLSI project to understand the basics of digital design, test bench preparation, HDL, and the simulation tools. The mentioned projects are practical and contemporary and provide a hands-on experience in VLSI design with advanced techniques.

Carrying out these IEEE VLSI engineering projects will definitely contribute towards improving various skills such as problem-solving, design, and simulation; skills that are considered precious in the industry. Be it low-power design, processor architecture, or signal processing; these projects will give you a stronghold on career building.

Certainly, within these resources, one may also find link sets to download source codes of the projects from GitHub, Open Cores, and similar digital design repositories, containing reference designs and simulation tools.