Intro - Vlsi Circuit Design
Intro - Vlsi Circuit Design
Intro - Vlsi Circuit Design
Short Profile
TAFSIR AHMED KHAN
LECTURER, EETE, DIU
E-MAIL: shimul10175673@gmail.com
RESEARCH INTEREST: OPTO & MICRO-electronic Devices, Digital
Circuit and IC Design, Modeling; Biomedical engineering; Ultra Low
Power Circuits; Sensors, Image processing.
EVALUATION
MID Term exam
20%
Class test/quiz 20%
Attendance and assignments
10%
FINAL Term exam
50%
Total 100%
Quizes:
3 x Quizes (Mid 2- Final 1)20*3=60 marks
(Average of all quizzes will be considered)
TEXT BOOKS:
CMOS VLSI Design- A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Neil H.E. Weste &
David Harris, 3rd Edition.
Principles of CMOS VLSI Design- A Systems Perspective, Neil H.E. Weste &
Kamran Eshraghian, 2nd Edtion, Addison-Wesley Limited.
IC Products
Processors
Memory chips
PLA, FPGA
Embedded systems
Mobile communication,
audio/video processing
Programmable
Analog
System-on-chip (SoC)
Images: amazon.com
Integrated Circuits
How
SSI
The Babbage
Difference Engine
(1832)
25,000 parts
cost: 17,470
Standard cell
FIFO
Pentium
History
Physical limitations
Economic limitations
Gordon Moore
Intel Co-Founder and Chairmain Emeritus
10
Image source: Intel Corporation www.intel.com
Transistors
Pentium III
10M
80486
1M
80386
100K
10K
1K
Pentium
8086
4040
80286
8080
1975
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
IC Scales
Integration level
Small Scale Integration
Medium Scale Integration
Large Scale Integration
Very Large Scale Integration
Ultra Large Scale Integration
Super Large Scale Integration
Abbreviation
SSI
2 to 50
MSI
LSI
VLSI
ULSI
SLSI
50 to 5,000
5,000 to 100,000
100,000 to 10,000,000
10,000,000 to 1,000,000,000
over 1,000,000,000
1995
0.35
1997
0.25
1999
0.18
2001
0.13
2004
0.10
2007
0.07
64 M
256 M
1G
4G
16 G
64 G
0.017
0.007
0.003
0.001
0.0005
0.0002
4M
7M
13 M
25 M
50 M
90 M
0.5
0.2
0.1
0.05
0.02
2M
4M
7M
13 M
25 M
40 M
0.3
200
0.1
200
0.05
200 300
0.03
300
0.02
300
0.01
300
400 (?)
Brief History
Photo courtesy:
AT&T Archive
MOSFET
~10nm
2000
Texas
Instruments
2015
Vin
IC Design:
CMOS Inverter
(a)
Vdd
NMOS
Vss
PMOS
Vout
(b)
P-well
Metal 1
Contact
N-well
Metal 1, AlCu
W
n+
PMD
n+
STI
P-Well
p+
N-Well
P-Epi
P-Wafer
p+
(c)