DESIGN OF A DIGITAL AUDIO RECEIVER IN A VLSI LAB

Peter Blinzer

   This paper describes the successful implementation of a real world design task from consumer electronics in a university design lab. Within one term, students designed a circuit for digital audio decoding as a Verilog model and an FPGA implementation. This design task allowed to practice a basic chip design strategy on a nontrivial problem and was highly motivating for the students, since audible results were produced by a hardware testbed.

Keywords: digital audio receiver, DSP, Verilog simulator, FPGA, design lab

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