VLSI Design

VLSI: Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits we will start with transistor level design assuming that you have finished functional and behavioural simulation for your design

Ch1. Introduction to VLSI Design

1. History of IC Development
2. VLSI Design? when?
3. Design Levels and Design Domains
4. Design Styles: Standard IC, ASIC, and Programmable Devices
5. Design Methodology
6. Design Tools
7. Testing Problem
8. Performance Parameters

History of IC Development

hair thickness is of 100um and first channel length was 50um using bjt transistors now reached 7nm and wafer size increased from 1.5 inch to 12-inch First Processor Intel manufactured was intel 4004 at 1970 on vertical axis no. of transistors per ic

Design Levels and Design Domains

Design levels are represented by a pyramid on the top of it is design specifications which is represented by instruction set Architecture incase we are designing a microprocessor and at the bottom of it is the layout of the design

Ch3. Design For Manufacturing

Ch4. Layout Verification

Ch5. Estimate Performance of your circuit before layout

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