Basic Vlsi Outline

Elective: Year 4, Semester 2

Assoc.Prof. Dr.Somsak Choomchuay: รศ.ดร. สมศักดิ์ ชุมช่วย

01044406 Basic VLSI Design

Prerequisite 01043402 Semiconductor Devices

3 (3-0)

The course concerns a detailed study of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technology and VLSI design methodologies, high and low level design. The low level design will be emphasised. This starts with Bipolar and MOS device processing, its characteristics, operations and its geometrical impact. Layer, layer representations, design rule and design rule checking, device parameter and modelling, and analog simulation are introduced. Basic CMOS gates such as INV, NAND and NOR studied to investigate the device ratio that affect the speed and power consumption. Standard cells design and performance evaluation are also given. Geometrical layout tools such as Magic or L-edit are invoked to perform case studies.

Course outline: Lecture 1: Introduction Lecture 2: VLSI Technology Lecture 3: Device Modelling (MOS) Lecture 4-5: CMOS Circuit Techniques (Digital, nMOS, CMOS, BiCMOS) Lecture 6: Physical level design (low level design) Lecture 7-8: VLSI Arithmetics Lecture 9-10: Memory Lecture 11-12: Interconnection, Pad, & whole chip design Consideration Lecture 13-14: High Level Design: Tools & Techniques (HDL, FPGA, Design case) Assessment: - No mid-term - Case study & Practice (design) & Home Work will share 20 % - Final Exam will share 80% Reference Texts: 1. John Y. Chen, CMOS Devices and Technology for VLSI, Prentice-Hall International Edition, 1990. 2. Andrew Brown, VLSI- Circuit and System in Silicon, McGraw-Hill International Edition, 1991. 3. Amar Mukherjee, Introduction to nMOS and CMOS VLSI Systems Design, Prentice-Hall International Edition, 1986. 4. Douglas A. Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian, Basic VLSI Design, Prentice-Hall Silicon System Engineering Series, 1994. 5. Eugene D. Fabricius, Introduction to VLSI Design, McGraw-Hill, Electronic Engineering Series, 1990. 6. Neil Weste, Kamran...