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 BooksReference Books (Cont.)ProjectVLSI Realization ProcessDefining TermsVLSI Design & Test Seminar SeriesSpring 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 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_Fall08/course.htmlhttp://www.eng.auburn.edu/~vagrawal/COURSE/E7770_Fall08/course.htmlSpring 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 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 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 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 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 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 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 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 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 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 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)77This Course: Advanced VLSI DesignThis Course: Advanced VLSI DesignELEC 7770:ELEC 7770: Review of CMOS logic circuits; 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 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 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.design, verification, and test.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 (35%)Project (35%)Homeworks, three or four (30%)Homeworks, three or four (30%)Final exam (35%)Final exam (35%)Original Schedule: May 1, 2008, Broun 306, 7:00 – 9:30PMOriginal Schedule: May 1, 2008, Broun 306, 7:00 – 9:30PMRescheduled: Take-home, assigned Apr. 26, 2008, due Rescheduled: Take-home, assigned Apr. 26, 2008, due May 1, 2008.May 1, 2008.Spring 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)99Course OutlineCourse OutlineNanotechnology: Present and future advances.Nanotechnology: Present and future advances.Project – solve a design problemProject – solve a design problemAdvanced TopicsAdvanced TopicsTechnology trends and Moore’s lawTechnology trends and Moore’s lawTesting and design for testabilityTesting and design for testabilityEnergy efficiencyEnergy efficiencySignal integritySignal integritySoft errors, fault-tolerant designSoft errors, fault-tolerant designVerification, equivalence checking, binary decision diagramsVerification, equivalence checking, binary decision diagramsAdvanced methods for design optimizationAdvanced methods for design optimizationLinear programmingLinear programmingRetimingRetimingSpring 08, Jan 15Spring 08, Jan 15ELEC 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.