1. ELEC 7770 Advanced VLSI Design Spring 2016 Introduction
Vishwani D. Agrawal
James J. Danaher Professor
ECE Department, Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849
Spring 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

2. Related 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 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

3. Related Course: Computer-Aided Design 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 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

4. Related Course: Low-Power Design of Electronic 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 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

5. Related 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 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

6. Related 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 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

7. This Course: Advanced VLSI Design
ELEC 7770: Review of CMOS logic circuits; impact of fabrication issues on design; high speed switching circuits; high performance memory structures; advanced clocking strategies and clock distribution; performance optimization; deep submicron design issues; ASIC design flow: logic synthesis, placement and routing; design verification; low power design.
Spring 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

8. Course Objectives and Evaluation
Learn and participate in the process of modern VLSI design, verification, and test of a chip.
Develop an understanding for the advanced design concepts in modern VLSI technologies.
Evaluation:
Project %
Homework %
Final exam, May 4, 2016, B235, 4-6:30PM 35%
Spring 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

9. ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)
Course Outline
Design Project
Advanced Topics
Economics of VLSI systems
Logic synthesis and technology mapping
Retiming and timing optimization
Soft errors and fault tolerance
Signal integrity
Verification
RF testing, alternate test, defect level, optimization
Technologies of the future (reading assignments)
Spring 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

10. ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)
Reference Books
J. M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, and B. Nikolić, Digital Integrated Circuits, A Design Perspective, Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2003.
M. J. S. Smith, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
N. H. E. Weste and D. Harris, CMOS VLSI Design, A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2005.
W. Wolf, Modern VLSI Design, System-on-Chip Design, Third Edition, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
Spring 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

11. VLSI Realization Process
Customer’s need
Design
Determine requirements
Write specifications
Design synthesis and Verification
Test development
Fabrication
Manufacturing test
Manufacture
Chips to customer
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ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

12. ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)
Defining Terms
Design synthesis: Given an I/O function, develop a procedure to manufacture a device using known materials and processes.
Verification: Predictive analysis to ensure that the synthesized design, when manufactured, will perform the given I/O function.
Test:
Characterization: A test that debugs test program by fault diagnosis.
Manufacturing test: A step that ensures that the physical device, manufactured from the synthesized design, has no manufacturing defect.
Spring 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)

13. VLSI Design & Test Seminar Series
Must attend
Every Wednesday, Broun 235, 4PM
Spring 2016, Jan 13
ELEC 7770: Advanced VLSI Design (Agrawal)