1. 1 Team M-2: Charles Norman (M2-1) Julio Segundo (M2-2) Nan Li (M2-3) Shanshan Ma (M2-4) Design Manager: Zack Menegakis Presentation 13: Final Presentation May 3, 2006 Overall Project Objective: Design a low-power chip that navigates an aircraft to pre-determined waypoints.

2. 2 Agenda  Marketing - Nan  Project Description  How It Works  Verification  Floorplan  Layout  Final Specifications  Conclusion

3. 3 SkyNav is a low-power solution to today’s high demand of autonomous vehicles, utilizing intelligent judgments for flight corrections.

4. 4 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle  Commercial  Military

5. 5 The Market  The most dynamic sector of the aerospace industry  Will more than double over the next decade, from current worldwide UAV expenditures of about $2 billion in 2005 to $4.5 billion in 2014. - Forecast International research report - Forecast International research report

6. 6 Why Use a Chip?  Low-power Consumption  Compact  Decrease Manpower SKY NAV

7. 7 Agenda  Marketing  Project Description  How It Works  Verification  Floorplan  Layout  Final Specifications  Conclusion

8. 8 54 3 2 1 Project Description  The system will be able to autopilot the craft through a series of 5 user specified GPS coordinates in 3 dimensions  Our chip will calculate the correction for altitude, latitude, longitude, speed.

9. 9 Pre-Blackbox Data Current Coordinates Application Description Waypoint Coordinates Post-Blackbox Data Calculator (AKA Blackbox) Coordinate Corrections Avionics

10. 10 Agenda  Marketing  Project Description  How It Works – Shanshan  Verification  Floorplan  Layout  Final Specifications  Conclusion

11. 11 Clock Division

12. 12 Flow Path

13. 13 Flow Path

14. 14 Flow Path

15. 15 Flow Path

16. 16 Flow Path

17. 17 Flow Path

18. 18 Flow Path

19. 19 Flow Path

20. 20 Flow Path

21. 21 Agenda  Marketing  Project Description  How It Works  Verification – Julio  Floorplan  Layout  Final Specifications  Conclusion

22. 22 Verification Chip Functions -2-d v. 3-d -2-d v. 3-d -Calculate our speed or use an input -Calculate our speed or use an input -Units: What is conventional? -Units: What is conventional? -Accuracy -Accuracy -Calculation Outsourcing -Calculation Outsourcing Exhaustive Testing -Overflow Cases Layout Schematic Structural Behavioral Matlab

23. 23 Verification Chip Functions -2-d v. 3-d -2-d v. 3-d -Calculate our speed or use an input -Calculate our speed or use an input -Units: What is conventional? -Units: What is conventional? -Accuracy -Accuracy -Calculation Outsourcing -Calculation Outsourcing Exhaustive Testing -Overflow Cases Layout Schematic Structural Behavioral Matlab Serialization added Test, Test, Test!

24. 24 1 2 Scenario Scenario Verification

25. 25 Verification Chip Functions -2-d v. 3-d -2-d v. 3-d -Calculate our speed or use an input -Calculate our speed or use an input -Units: What is conventional? -Units: What is conventional? -Accuracy -Accuracy -Calculation Outsourcing -Calculation Outsourcing Exhaustive Testing -Overflow Cases Serialization added Test, Test, Test! Warning: Writing Sim files can cause Arthritis! Solution: Have a Script write your Sim Files Layout Schematic Structural Behavioral Matlab

26. 26 Verification

27. 27 Agenda  Marketing  Project Description  How It Works  Verification  Floorplan  Layout  Final Specifications  Conclusion

28. 28 Floorplan Inputs Blackbox Outputs

29. 29 Agenda  Marketing  Project Description  How It Works  Verification  Floorplan  Layout – Charles  Final Specifications  Conclusion

30. 30 Layout Comparators & Calculators SRAM FSM Registers Clock Dividers

31. 31 Poly (10.27)

32. 32 Metal 1 (30.95)

33. 33 Metal 2 (18.65)

34. 34 Metal 3 (11.20)

35. 35 Metal 4 (3.68)

36. 36 Agenda  Marketing  Project Description  How It Works  Verification  Floorplan  Layout  Final Specifications  Conclusion

37. 37 Chip Specifications Size 309.96µm x 402.39µm Area124,724µm² Transistor Count 28,242 Aspect Ratio 1.30 Overall Trans. Density.226

38. 38 Pin Specifications Vdd! / Gnd! In/Out2 User Input In8 “Blackbox” Outputs Out5 “Blackbox” Inputs In27 CorrectionsOut36 DoneOut2 Total80

39. 39 Power Specifications Functional Component Navigation - Schematic Navigation - Extracted RC Setup - Schematic Setup - Extracted RC SRAM11.97nW12.09nW594.8nW674.2nW FSM2.3nW2.7nW30.4nW32.3nW RegistersBuffers Clock Dividers Done Logic 1.20uW8.98uW3.09uW31.92nW1.22uW9.10uW3.29uW38.12nW5.6uW16.56uW3.09uW31.92nW5.9uW16.75uW3.29uW38.12nW Speed Comparator Altitude Comparator Waypoint Comparator Heading0.8nW1.3nW16.8nW10.7nW0.8nW1.3nW17.5nW10.7nW0.8nW1.7nW58.1nW11.7nW0.8nW1.7nW61.9nW11.7nW Distance Calculator Speed Calculator Angle Calculator 10.4nW5.5nW4.3nW10.4nW6.0nW4.3nW11.3nW5.8nW4.5nW11.4nW6.0nW4.5nW Total Modular Power 13.37uW13.71uW26.0uW26.78uW

40. 40 Agenda  Marketing  Project Description  How It Works  Verification  Floorplan  Layout  Final Specifications  Conclusion

41. 41 Reaching Our Main Goal  I/O Count > 200  Serialization  Increased Power  This led to…

42. 42 Conclusion  Gripe is always up to increase your quota  Changing schematics while someone is trying to LVS the top-level layout leads to tears  We are proud of our design (no pre- discovered algorithms used)

43. 43 Q & A