ECE 558 Introduction to VLSI Design
ECE 658 VLSI Design Principles
Lecture 3 (Fall 2006)
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Warm-up Problems
- Adder/subtracter from last lecture.
- RC Circuit.
Things we didn't get to last lecture
- Examples of VLSI Layouts at different levels (textbook, ...
- CPU Info Center, a
gold mine of information on current CPU chips from Intel, Motorola, IBM,
Digital, ARM, TI, etc.
Significant
events in VLSI Ancient History
- 1940: PN junction
- 1947: Transistor
- 1956: Logic Gate
- 1959: Integrated Circuit
- 1962: TTL Logic Family
- 1963: CMOS
- 1970: 4K MOS RAM
- 1971: Microprocessor (Intel 4004)
Trends
- Figures 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 in book
- Technology, see NTRS Roadmap attached
- Types of Chips (Makimoto
Wave)
- Applications
- Design Techniques, Figure 1.5 in book
VLSI Quality
Measures
- Area
- Speed
- Power
- Design Time
- Reliability
- Manufacturing Costs
VLSI Design
Techniques
- Design Abstractions, Figure 1.5 in book
- Modularity, Regularity, Hierarchy,
- Re-use
- Synthesis Tools
- Analysis Tools
Coming up in
next lecture
- CMOS Process and Layout
- Here is a link for the MOSIS service
that provides fabrication services for universities like us. You can find
out about design rules, tools and fabrication issues.
Here is a
link for the NTRS
roadmap handout coming up in Lecture 6