Difference between revisions of "EEE525 VLSI Design"

Revision as of 12:27, 23 April 2008

Project

• Metal Capacitance, 20fF/um ??

Digital Design

• Cmos Logic Circuit Design By John P. Uyemura (Google online)

-3.1.1 (p.106) Thorough treatment of Inverter VTC, calculating VIL and VIH

Homework 2

• prob. 2. Tutorial problems with answers from MIT
• prob. 2. Voltage Transfer Characteristics from Berkeley

Homework 3

• parasitic probe?
• Tutorial from MIT, calculating avg/integral

More Cadence Tutorials

• Cadence Tools Tutorial from beginning to automatically generated counter layout
• Full-Custom Design with Cadence - Tutorial, Graz

Cadence

• Cadence setup on Server

Configuration path: /usr/local/cadence2/NCSU

• vlsi2.eas.asu.edu information
• VLSI Readme, with Cadence instructions
• > vlsi2 Read-me file

Virtuoso

• Layout tutorial from Berkeley
• To add labels and pin names etc., they have to be attached to a geometry, which means a wire net. To add a label such as “INV M12” where “M12” is a specific transistor in the schematic, using the “add label” button on the left, Select The Text Layer first, then open the label window, check the “Attach” checkbox, and after the label is placed, you have a connector attached to the mouse from the label which needs to be placed on a wire or it won’t pass DRC. Adding this kind of label probably also names the wire net, so I'm sure that there will be problems later if

Tutorials

• >> Advanced calculator tutorial from MIT
• > Advanced tutorial from UCLA
• > UWaterloo Tutorial, thorough on parametric analysis with some pPar information
• > Tutorial at UPenn
• > Lab Tutorial at UPenn
• > Tutorial at WPI
• > Tutorial at USC, Ppar variable information
• > Cadence Manual at NMSU
• Tutorial, VLSI
• Tutorial on Virtuoso Schematic editor from OSU, layout with ALU
• Berkeley Virtuoso tutorial
• Cadence FAQ
• NCSU CDK User FAQ
• Circuit simulation using Spectre (UT Dallas)
• Unlocking files

-At the shell prompt, type clsAdminTool, you'll get a > prompt.

-Type ale /afs/asu.edu/users/m/b/a/mbaker7/cadence/EE525 (using the correct path to your library). You should get a list of existing locks in that library.

-There are two ways to release the lock in question:

To release all the locks in the library, type are /full/path/to/your/library/directory

To release the lock on a particular file, type asre /full/path/to/the/locked/file

-Type quit or exit.

Spectre

• Spectre documentation from UCI.edu

Design Rules

• Mosis design rules (SCN5M Deep)

Spectre

• Model Libraries: