Students will perform an individual work to propose, design, simulate and document a VLSI project using Electric CAD tool. You can propose your own project, subject to course convenor’s approval. Two examples of project specifications i.e. ALU and router are provided. You are a graduate engineer in a fabless company called ICD Technology Pty Ltd. This company is in the business of developing various hardcore IPs. Your task is to design a 4-bit arithmetic logic unit (ALU) chip. The performance of the chip will be rated based on the number of transistors used, the area of the layout, operating speed, and the power consumption. This circuit accepts two 4-bit inputs, A[3:0] and B[3:0], and generates a 4-bit output R[3:0] or 8-bit R[7:0] output (in the case of multiplication). The table below shows the eight operations that could be performed by this ALU.