Code: BE4M34ISC Systems on Chip
Lecturer: doc. Ing. Jiøí Jakovenko Ph.D. Weekly load: 2p+2L Assessment: Z,ZK
Department: 13134 Credits: 6 Semester: S
Description:
Main responsibilities of integrated circuits designer; design abstraction levels - Y chart. Specification designation, feasibility study, criteria for technology and design kits selection. Analogue and digital integrated systems design and simulation methodologies. Main features of application specific ICs - full custom design, gate arrays, standard cells, programmable array logic. Design aspects mobile and low power systems. Hardware Description languages (HDL). Logic and physical synthesis. Frond End and Back End design. Floorplanning, place and route, layout, parasitic extraction, time analysis, testbenche construction and verification.
Contents:
1. Main tasks of analogue and digital integrated circuits designer; design methodologies (top down, bottom up), design abstraction levels - Y chart.
2. Application specific integrated circuits systems types, full custom design, gate array, standard cells, programmable array logic; main features, economical aspect of the design.
3. Full customs integrated systems, feasibility study, specification, criteria for technology and design kits selection.
4. World standards and CAD tools for analog and mix-signal integrated circuits design, design of RF and mobile low power systems.
5. Design tools for automatic generation of analog behavior models, bottom up design methodology, macro blocks.
6. Design principles of mix-signal integrated circuits, purpose of hierarchical design, digital and analogue block interface, CAD design tools for automatic circuit generation; functional and static time analysis, formal verification; Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS, VHDL-A.
7. Hardware description languages -VHDL, Verilog, Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS.
8. Design tools and methodologies for digital integrated circuits and systems; language VHDL, Verilog; library cells; parameters extractions for library cells development.
9. Frond end design - functional specification, RTL, logic synthesis, Gate-level netlist, behavioral stimulus extraction.
10. Back End design - specification of Design Kit, mapping of the design, Floorplanning, place and route, layout, parasitic extraction, layout versus schema check (LVS).
11. Methods of physical synthesis, placement of functional blocks, power lines design and distribution, simulation of interconnect continuity, design verification.
12. Clock signal distribution, delay calculating, static and dynamic timing analysis.
13. Testing, design of testbenches, design verification methods.
14. Tape out and fabrication, integrated systems verification, scaling and design mapping to different technologies.
Recommended literature:
Michael Smith: Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison-Wesley, 1998
P. Gray, P Hurst, s. Lewis, R. Mayer: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, John Wiley and Sons, 2000
Keywords:
System on Chip, IC Design