ELEC 7770 Advanced VLSI Design Spring 2007 IntroductionRelated Course: VLSI DesignRelated Course: Computer-Aided Design of Digital CircuitsRelated Course: Low-Power Design of Electronic CircuitsRelated Course: VLSI TestingRelated Course: Digital System DesignThis Course: Advanced VLSI DesignCourse Objectives and EvaluationCourse OutlineReference BooksDesign Team ProjectVLSI Realization ProcessDefining TermsProject Assignment: Product DefinitionDesign TeamVLSI Design & Test Seminar SeriesSpring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)11ELEC 7770ELEC 7770Advanced VLSI DesignAdvanced VLSI DesignSpring 2007Spring 2007IntroductionIntroductionVishwani D. AgrawalVishwani D. AgrawalJames J. Danaher ProfessorJames J. Danaher ProfessorECE Department, Auburn UniversityECE Department, Auburn UniversityAuburn, AL 36849Auburn, AL [email protected]@eng.auburn.eduhttp://www.eng.auburn.edu/~vagrawal/COURSE/E7770_Spr07http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~vagrawal/COURSE/E7770_Spr07Spring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)22Related Course: VLSI DesignRelated Course: VLSI DesignELEC 5770/6770: Review of MOS transistor fundamentals, CMOS logic circuits; VLSI fabrication and design rules; clocking strategies and sequential design; performance estimation; memories and programmable arrays; standard cell design methodologies; computer aided design (CAD) tools.Spring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)33Related Course: Computer-Aided Related Course: Computer-Aided Design of Digital CircuitsDesign of Digital CircuitsELEC 5250/6250: Hardware components of multiprocessor systems including processor, interconnection, memory, and control architectures; Software elements of parallel processing including inter-processor communication, task partitioning, task mapping and scheduling, load balancing, programming languages, and parallel algorithms.Spring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)44Related Course: Low-Power Design of Related Course: Low-Power Design of Electronic CircuitsElectronic CircuitsELEC 5270/6270: Design of digital circuits and systems for reduced power consumption, power analysis algorithms, low-power MOS technologies, low-power design architectures for FPGA, memory and microprocessor, reduction of power in testing of circuits.Spring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)55Related Course: VLSI TestingRelated Course: VLSI TestingELEC 7250: Introduction to VLSI testing, test process and automatic test equipment, test economics and product quality, fault modeling, logic and fault simulation, testability measures, combinational and sequential circuit test generation, memory test, analog test, delay test, IDDQ test, design for testability, built-in self-test, boundary scan, analog test bus, system test and core test.Spring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)66Related Course: Digital System DesignRelated Course: Digital System DesignELEC 4200: Hierarchical, modular design of digital systems; computer-aided digital system modeling, simulation, analysis, and synthesis; design implementation with programmable logic devices and field programmable gate arrays.Spring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)77This Course: Advanced VLSI DesignThis Course: Advanced VLSI DesignELEC 7770: Review of CMOS logic circuits; ELEC 7770: Review of CMOS logic circuits; impact of fabrication issues on design; high impact of fabrication issues on design; high speed switching circuits; high performance speed switching circuits; high performance memory structures; advanced clocking memory structures; advanced clocking strategies and clock distribution; performance strategies and clock distribution; performance optimization; deep submicron design issues; optimization; deep submicron design issues; ASIC design flow: logic synthesis, placement ASIC design flow: logic synthesis, placement and routing; design verification; low power and routing; design verification; low power design. design.Spring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)88Course Objectives and EvaluationCourse Objectives and EvaluationObjectives:Objectives:Learn and participate in the process of modern VLSI Learn and participate in the process of modern VLSI design, verification, and test of a chip.design, verification, and test of a chip.Develop an understanding for the advanced design Develop an understanding for the advanced design concepts in modern VLSI technologies.concepts in modern VLSI technologies.Evaluation:Evaluation:Project participationProject participationHomeworksHomeworksClass testsClass testsFinal examFinal examSpring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)99Course OutlineCourse OutlineNanotechnology: Present and future advances.Nanotechnology: Present and future advances.Design Team ProjectDesign Team ProjectAdvanced TopicsAdvanced TopicsDesign for testability for system on chip (SOC)Design for testability for system on chip (SOC)Low-power designLow-power designSignal integritySignal integrityProcess variationProcess variationVerificationVerificationSpring 07, Jan 16Spring 07, Jan 16ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)1010Reference BooksReference BooksJ. M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, and B. NikoliJ. M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, and B. Nikolić, ć, Digital Integrated Circuits, A Design Perspective, Digital Integrated Circuits, A Design Perspective, Second EditionSecond Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2003., Prentice-Hall, 2003.M. J. S. Smith, M. J. S. Smith, Application-Specific Integrated Application-Specific Integrated CircuitsCircuits, Addison-Wesley, 1997., Addison-Wesley, 1997.N. H. E. Weste and D. Harris, N. H. E. Weste and D. Harris, CMOS VLSI CMOS VLSI Design, A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Design, A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Third EditionThird Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2005.,