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CPSC466 Integrated Circuits Design II

Fall 2005

                        CPSC 466 Syllabus

·         Text book: Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems

Handout Homework

Introduction
Digital-logic

CMOS-layers
Transistor-sizing
MOS-Electrical-Characteristics

Homework1-solution
Homework2-solution
HW3
HW4

Labs                

Lab1 Path Setup, Magic tutorial

·        Magic

·        Magic leaf cells check

·        Magic hierachy

·        Magic brief overview http://vlsi.ece.iit.edu/scells/ece429/MAGIC1x.html

·        Magic inverter tutorial http://vlsi.ece.iit.edu/scells/magic/

·        Magic Verilog Synthesis

Lab2 Stick diagram

·        Draw stick diagrams

Lab3 Circuit extraction and HSPICE

Lab4 Circuit simulation and optimization using Hspice and Awave from Synopsys

Hspice input file: right click and download, then put in your directory          
AWAVE to view output          
Hspice Awave tutorial (good) 
Spice Analysis Manual

Lab5 Latch and Flip-Flop Simulation with Unix Shell

Lab6 Decoder design due Dec.3

Lab7 MOSIS pad frame and CIF file for chip fabrication

Magic Tape out notes      
How to use the pads       
Create MOSIS account, MOSIS Customer Agreements and Access Forms         

MOSIS Reference Library: MOSIS FAQs, MOSIS Technical Notes, Resources on the Internet, VLSI Text Book Recommendations


VLSI CLASSES OF OTHER UNIVERSITIES

·         University of Stanford ee 371 , Stanford VLSI research projects

·         UC Berkeley ee 241

·         UC Davis, ACSEL LAB          

·         University of Southern California, Dr. Pedram Low Power design

·         Courses at MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm

·         EDA lab by Dr. Lei He , UCLA (Leakage, layout and power estimation)

·         Dr. A. Mason EE 410S05 Very good link!

·         Dr. Reese ECE 8273

·         ECE 425 by Dr. John A. Nestor http://foghorn.cadlab.lafayette.edu/ece425/index.html

·         http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~simoni/Classes/EC551/ec551.html

·         Computer Architecture, Arithmetic and CAD Research Group at by Dr. James Stine

·         Project Tips

·         Harvey Mudd College
CMOS VLSI Design, A Circuits and Systems Perspective book website

·         Cadence Repository for Electronic Technical Education

·         Intel VLSI Curriculum

·         San Jose State University: http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~dparent/ICGROUP/index.htm

·         University of Tennessee: 12-cell standard cell library which can be  fabricated  on  the MOSIS   educational  runs 

·         Olin College VLSI


HSPICE/ SPECTRE

·      HSPICE quick reference

·      HSPICE Tips Document by Rhett Davis from UC Berkeley eece 141

·   HSPICE tutorial
http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~kime/555/tutorials/hspice/spc_tut.pdf

·   A brief guide to HSPICE: sweep , find-when, etc
http://www.ee.tufts.edu/r/nanolab/hspice.html

·   Measuring Digital Properties using Spectre
http://www.ece.iit.edu/~vlsi/cadence/spectre4.html


VLSI Design Flow

·         Top down Standard cell ASIC design: How to use a Standard cell (ASIC) Design approach (vhdl or verilog to physical)

·         Bottom up Full Custom design: Tale of an IC Engineer

·         Design flow (HDL and chip level )

·         Design flow (logical physical level

·         Jazz Foundry Assisted COT design flow: http://www.jazzsemi.com/images/process_technologies/FAsCOT-Flow.gif

STANDARD CELL LIBRARY

·   Survey of standard cell libraries by Graham Petley

·   Links from IIT

·   Creating a LEF file for Silicon Ensemble from IIT

·   From stick diagram to layout: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee271/stick_to_layout/stick_to_layout.html

·   Layout suggestions:
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/Classes/ICDesign/ee141_f01/grade/faq/layout_common_sense.htm

·   Tutorial for Standard Cells Library from Utah EE 5710:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/classes/cs5710/tutorials/tutorial03.htm


MOSIS

 

Electric Circuit

·         Fundamentals of Electric Circuits MHHE Online Product Registration

·         Electric circuits introduction

·         Electrical circuits review

 

Other links

·         IC design challenges

·         IEEE Transaction on Very Large Integrated Systems
submission

·         IEEE International Symposium of Circuits and Systems: http://www.slrc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/iscas05/

·         IEEE Microelectronics Education Conference: www.mseconference.org/mse05cfp.pdf

·         ICSVLSI – IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI

·         IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

·         IEICE transaction

·         System On Chip 03: http://www.savantcompany.com/SoC3-Fall2005/agenda3.htm

·         Gigascale Silicon Research Center at Berkeley

·         Programmable System-on-a-Chip

·         MicroSystems Research Laboratory at Penn State

·         VLSI Research Group University of Toronto

·         Links to VLSI information

·         MPL's SCMOS RELEASE (Microsystems Prototyping Laboratory)

·         Magic

·         MOSIS

·         Engineering Information

·         Semiconductor Research Corporation

·         Semiconductor Industry Association

·         SystemC  Org

·         SuperLog Org

Peiyi Zhao

Department of Math and Computer Science

Wilkinson College of Letters & Sciences

Chapman University