RF Triangulator: Indoor/Outdoor Location Finding 18-525 Architecture Proposal Giovanni Fonseca David Fu Amir Ghiti Stephen Roos Design Manager: Myron Kwai

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RF Triangulator Indoor/Outdoor Location
Finding 18-525 Architecture ProposalGiovanni
FonsecaDavid FuAmir GhitiStephen RoosDesign
Manager Myron Kwai

• Overall Project Objective
• Design a Radio-Frequency indoor/outdoor
  navigation system, utilizing the existing
  wireless infrastructure.
• Design Stage Objective
• LVS of all functional blocks

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Status

• Structural Verilog complete.
• Schematics completed.
• Layout of basic components complete.
• Major Layouts
• 90 done
• FPU Done, adding buffering to strengthen signals
• Lookup Done, testing
• Calc and Top Three Finishing layouts
• Global routing still needs to be done

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Current Transistor counts

• Total 27,150 transistors
• Top Three 6,500 trans.
• 3 x FPU Add/Sub Unit 1500 trans.
• Control Registers Muxes 2000 trans.
• Calc 17,950 trans.
• 2 x FPU Add/Sub Unit 1500 trans.
• 1 x FPU Mult/Div Unit 5000 trans.
• 1 x Logshifter 200 trans.
• 1 x Comparator 800 transistors.
• FSM Logic 850 transistors
• 25 x 12-bit M-S En Reg 6600 trans. total
• 8-1,6-1,4-1,2-1 Mux Sets 3000 trans. total
• Lookup 2,700 trans.
• Control Registers Muxes 2000 trans.
• Control Logic 163 trans.
• SRAM 12k trans
• count not including SRAM, with SRAM 38k

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Floorplan
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FPU Layouts
Multiplication Division Layout
FASU Layout
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FPU Waveforms
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FPU Waveforms
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FPU Waveforms
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FPU Waveforms
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FPU Waveforms
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Lookup Layout
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Lookup Waveforms
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Lookup Waveforms
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Lookup Waveforms
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Lookup Waveforms
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Top Three Progress
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Questions/Concerns

• Large block simulations take a long time
• Much of Top Three still needs work