vlsi circuit design
DESCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION OF VLSI DESIGNTRANSCRIPT
Dr. Ke Huang
COMPE 572
VLSI Circuit Design
Fall 2015
Lecture 1: Introduction to VLSI Circuits
VLSI Circuit Design
• Course #: COMPE 572
• Course name: VLSI Circuit Design
• Two lectures per week: Tuesday, Thursday 5:30PM-6:45PM
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Class administration
• Instructor: Dr. Ke Huang
• Email: [email protected]
• Office: E202B
• Office hours: Tuesday 10:00am - 12:00pm Thursday 10:00 am - 12:00pm • Phone: 619-594-7792
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Class administration
• When emailing me, please format the subject line as follows:
“COMPE572 - <last name> <first name> - <subject>”
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• Title : CMOS VLSI Design – A Circuits and Systems Perspective
• Edition: 4th, Addison Wesley
• Authors: Neil H.E. West David Money Harris
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Textbooks
• Title : Microelectronic Circuits
• Edition: 7th, Oxford University Press
• Authors: Adel S. Sedra Kenneth C. Smith
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Textbooks
• Title : Digital Systems Design using VHDL
• Edition: 2nd, Cengage Learning
• Authors: Charles H. Roth, Jr. Lizy Kurian John
• Course material available on the Blackboard
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Textbooks
• Homework will be assigned on a weekly basis. Available on Blackboard every week.
• Homework is due at the beginning of class on the date specified on Blackboard.
Penalty will apply if submitted late.
• Homework is essential to the learning process!
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Homework
• Four lab project assignments in total
• Lab reports due dates specified on Blackboard
• There are no scheduled lab times. Perform your lab work when you wish (subject to lab open hours)
• Project assignments must be completed to pass the course, in accordance with accreditation requirements
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Lab
• Several quizzes during the semester
• One mid-term exam during the semester
• One final exam at the end of the semester
• Exams are closed book, but you are allowed to bring one page of notes (letter size) prepared by your own
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Exams
• Homework and project assignments
30% of grade
• Midterm exam and quizzes
30% of grade
• Final exam
40% of grade
• Class participation bonus
Up to 5% of grade. You will have a bonus when you come to the board and correctly resolve a problem
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Class grades
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Class grades • Grading system
• Attend class and participate
• Spend time outside of class learning the material
• Read the text books
• Do the homework
• Attend the lab and complete all of the lab projects
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You are expected to
• COMPE271, EE330
• You must provide the proof of prerequisites (e.g. copy of official transcript) by 8/27/2015, otherwise you will be dropped from the class. If your prerequisite courses were not taken at SDSU, you should obtain a proof of course equivalency from the Office of Advising and Evaluations at SDSU, showing that the courses you have taken are equivalent to COMPE271 and EE330.
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Prerequisites
• In my file, the following students are enrolled but have not provided the proof of prerequisites yet:
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Prerequisites
M. Alva J. L. Ashok Kumar S. Bheemareddy R. Bommakuri D. Damani P. Gupta A. Ilango J. Jadhav P. Kansara P. Kondlapudi
D. Sanghvi S. Sanjay D. Shah D. Shah H. Shah
A.M. Kothari A. Kulkarni R. M. Kulkarni P. Mhasalkar N. Namala D. Patel
J. Shah R. Shah V. Shashidhara Q. Su A. Tyagi M. Vanga
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Questions?
• Introduction of VLSI
• Review of bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
• Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
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Learning objectives
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Introduction of VLSI
• Application of Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) systems
VLSI systems
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• Different levels of abstraction
System design
Memory ALU
Control I/O
Logic design Circuit design
We focus on circuit design in this course
Introduction of VLSI
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Introduction of VLSI
• Discrete electronic components
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Introduction of VLSI
• Circuit design with discrete electronic components
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Introduction of VLSI
• First integrated circuit (IC) - Texas Instruments 1958
• 1 transistor and 4 other devices on 1 chip • Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize
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Introduction of VLSI
• First commercial planar IC – Fairchild 1959
• 1-bit memory device on a chip • 4 transistors and 5 resistors – small scale integration
technology
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Introduction of VLSI
• 𝜇𝐴709 operational amplifier – Fairchild 1965
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Introduction of VLSI
• First 1,024 bit memory chip – Intel 1970
Mostly made of nMOS transistors
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Introduction of VLSI
• First microprocessor – Intel 1971
The Intel 4004 – 2,300 Transistors
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Introduction of VLSI
• Intel core i7 Bloomfield – Intel 2008
1.4 billion transistors
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Introduction of VLSI
• Scales of integrated circuits
Small-scale integration (SSI) ~10 components
Medium-scale integration (MSI) ~100 components
Large-scale integration
(LSI) ~10,000 components
Very large-scale integration (VLSI) has more than tens of thousands of transistors on a single chip
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Introduction of VLSI
• Semiconductor manufacturing
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Introduction of VLSI
• Semiconductor manufacturing
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Introduction of VLSI
• IC wafers and packaging
After metal deposition, each wafer contains a number of the same ICs, which will be cut into distinct pieces and put in the package
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Introduction of VLSI
• Illustration of IC layout
3-D illustration of an IC Cross-sectional diagram of
n- and p-MOSFETs
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Introduction of VLSI
• What do we do?
Circuit-level schematic design
Layout design Hardware description language
• Introduction of VLSI
• Review of bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
• Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
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Learning objectives
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Review of bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
• Simplified structure of the npn and pnp transistors
npn transistor
pnp transistor
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Review of bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
• Characteristic for an npn transistor
𝑖𝐶 − 𝑣𝐵𝐸 characteristic 𝑖𝐶 − 𝑖𝐵 − 𝑣𝐶𝐸 characteristic
• Introduction of VLSI
• Review of bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
• Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
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Learning objectives
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Physical structure of NMOS transistors
Physical structure of NMOS Cross-section of NMOS
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Complementary MOS (CMOS)
Cross-section of a CMOS integrated circuit
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Characteristics of nMOS
G
S
D Overdrive voltage: how much 𝑣𝐺𝑆 exceeds 𝑉𝑡𝑛
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Characteristics of nMOS – a 3-dimensional view
𝑉𝐷𝑆
𝑉𝐺𝑆
𝐼𝐷
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Characteristics of nMOS – a 3-dimensional view
𝑉𝐷𝑆
𝑉𝐺𝑆
𝐼𝐷
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Characteristics of nMOS
𝑖𝐷 − 𝑉𝐺𝑆 − 𝑉𝐷𝑆 characteristic
G
S
D
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Characteristics of nMOS
𝑖𝐷 − 𝑉𝐺𝑆 characteristic in saturation region
or G
S
D
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Characteristics of pMOS
G
D
S
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Characteristics of pMOS
𝑉𝐷𝑆
𝐼𝐷
0 0
𝑉𝐺𝑆 = −2V
𝑉𝐺𝑆 = −3V
𝑉𝐺𝑆 = −4V
𝑉𝐺𝑆 = −5V
G
D
S
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Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
• Characteristics of pMOS
𝑖𝐷 − 𝑉𝐺𝑆 characteristic in saturation region
G
D
S
𝑉𝐺𝑆 (V)
-𝐼𝐷 (A)
• Introduction of VLSI
• Review of bipolar junction transistor (BJT)
• Review of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET)
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Summary