ECE 427: Advanced VLSI System Design
Lecture Time: TR 11:00-11:50 ECEB 3017
Instructor: Dong Kai Wang
Teaching Assistants: Stanley Wu (zaizhou3@illinois.edu),
Jerry Wang (tw12@illinois.edu)
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Fall 2025 Projects
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LeGEND: A Digital Random Number Generator
A mixed-signal DRNG for secure random-number generation which uses 64 physical entropy sources.
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oPOSsum: A NoC-Based SAT Solver Accelerator
A Boolean satisfiability solver operating on a 3x3 mesh network which supports a maximum problem size of 128 total variables and 224 total clauses.
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WRAITH: A CGRA with RISC-V Timesharing
A 4x4 CGRA for media acceleration, which reuses multiplication units to implement RV32IM Cores.
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D-PEARL: Dynamic Programming Execution Accelerator using Race Logic
A 27x27 Race Logic mesh architecture for accelerating sequence alignment.
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WHIPPET: Wide-swing High-performance Instruction Processing with Power-efficient Energy Tuning
A vector-enabled RISC-V microcontroller with dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), designed to balance performance and power efficiency across diverse workloads.
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A 100-MHz, Sub-100uW Temperature-Compensated RC Frequency Reference
A 100 MHz temperature-compensated RC frequency reference intended as a low-power, fully integrable alternative to off-chip crystal oscillators.
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TACO: A Tiled Architecture of (re)Configurable Operators
A custom FPGA ifeaturing a tiled fabric of configurable logic blocks, programmable routing, on-chip BRAM, integrated MAC units, GPIO, and JTAG programming.