Extract your magic layout. Have NO extraction warnings in any level of hierarchy ... Start Magic, and do :calma read chip :load chip :ext all. Run ext2sim on ...
Harder to Produce Working Chips. First-silicon success rate has been dropping. Yield has been dropping for volume production and takes longer to ramp up the yield
Moore's Law - 1965. Source: Intel Museum. Page 3. Process Name P854 P856 ... Microprocessor validation continues to be driven by the economics of Moore's Law ...
ECAD Tool Flows These notes are taken from the book: It s The Methodology, Stupid! by Pran Kurup, Taher Abbasi, Ricky Bedi, Publisher ByteK Designs, ( http://www ...
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Modularity: well-formed interfaces. Allows modules to be treated as black boxes. Locality ... faster, lower power as well! Design snap-together cells for ...
Continuing the Performance Lead Beyond Y2K. Shubu Mukherjee, Ph.D. Principal Hardware Engineer ... Performance Lead Beyond Y2K. Better answers. My Current ...
332:578 Deep Submicron VLSI Design Lecture 13 Dynamic Flip-Flops, Latches, Clocking, and Time Borrowing David Harris and Mike Bushnell Harvey Mudd College and Rutgers ...
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We hope that other microprocessor designers and validators will be ... a timely fashion was indeed a daunting one. ... working with designers to rapidly drive ...
Building a chip is about far more than ... RTL: VHDL or Verilog that can be synthesized to gates ... designers: writes VHDL/Verilog RTL based on documents ...
Outline Challenges DFM Philosophy Manufacturing and Variability Primer Design for Value Composability Performance Impact Limited Fill Insertion Function Aware ...
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... process-tuned libraries with their proven EDA tools to improve faster time to volume. - Genda Hu, VP of Marketing, TSMC Magma worked closely with TSMC to: ...
Introduction to CMOS VLSI Design Lecture 2: MIPS Processor Example Credits: David Harris Harvey Mudd College (Material taken/adapted from Harris lecture notes)
Calculate whether or not it has some desired property ... Property Specification: ... Temporal relationships between signal values. External and internal protocols ...
From S. Borkar, Intel. Power5 in 130nm: 160W @ 1.5 GHz [ISSCC'04] Need to consider PERFORMANCE AND POWER ... Provide insight in the operation of the circuit ...
http://vlsicad.ucsd.edu. Data Volume Explosion. Number of design rules per process node ... http://www.xinitiative.org/ Y-Architecture: http://vlsicad. ...
... 'Validating the Intel Pentium 4 Microprocessor' by Bob Bentley, ... 'Checking the code.' 'By inspection? That'll take forever.' - Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park ...
DWORD 2. DWORD 3. TRANSACTION. Not full ref model, but ... FV found serious chipset bugs missed in sims! Shadow Model: transaction end? Challenges Of SVA ...
June 20, 2001. Pentium 4 Development Timeline. Structural RTL coding ... Moved bug detection upstream earlier detection is less costly and less disruptive ...
Fault Tolerant & Fault Testable Hardware Design , by P.K. Lala, pp. 1 - 66 ... To learn basics of testing and design for testability for digital circuits and ...
Roadmap for the Term: Major Topics. Course Introduction. Computer ... (available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/xmen.html) VAST 200 Spr. ' 04 ...
VLSI Digital Circuits Winter 2003 Lecture 03: ASIC Flow and Design Convergence This Class + Logistics Overview of flow (preparation for Smith Chapters 12-17) Read ...
Machine exploits additional information available at runtime ... Support for lock-step operation to enable high-availability systems. October 13 & 14 ...
A. Kahng, EDA Forum 2003 Keynote, 031106. The Design ... Burn-in screening not practical with lower Vdd, higher power budgets overkill impact on yield ...
How to design System-on-Chip? Many millions (soon billions!) of transistors ... Hierarchy: Divide and Conquer. Recursively system into modules. Regularity ...
Learn about all aspects of chip design/implementation ... Using completion detectors (e.g. Ted Williams' stuff) Self-clocked. On-chip clock generator ...
Motorola Digital & RF Systems Roadmaps for Gate Length Extend Below Native Stepper Resolution ... Used for gate printing CD, sheet rho, control 'Weak' PSM - Via ...
Atlanta, GA 30332-0250 USA. cressler@ece.gatech.edu ... Cars. Aerospace. Moon / Mars. 8. John D. ... Continue to Push More Deeply into New Types of SiGe Devices ...
Emulation capacity of 10 Million ASIC gate-equivalents, ... Alternative topology: 3D mesh or torus. The 4 compute FPGA can be used to extend to 3D mesh/torus ...