IC Design & Flow Overview INTRODUCTION:Integrated circuits (ICs) have revolutionized the world as we know it. They power the devices we use every day and have enabled advancements in fields ranging from telecommunications to medicine. But have you ever wondered how these tiny chips, no bigger than a fingernail, are designed and manufactured? The IC design process is a complexRead more

Before starting the discussion on what is ASIC and what is FPGA, we will first learn about the basics that a VLSI enthusiast should know. Moore’s Law: Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.

“Lot of freeware VLSI CAD tools work well on Ubuntu. Learning Linux, shell commands/scripts, awk, grep, sed, perl & shell will be very easy on Ubuntu, these are basic things any VLSI engineer has to know & this knowledge makes him faster”

Double click on electric to open it. A window will be displayed which will have File, Edit, Cell, Export,View, Window, Tools and Help options on the tool bar. On the left hand side pane, you will find a window which has three options namely : Layers, Components and Explorer. You will learn more about these options as we go ahead with the design.

Why CMOS? Output of all CMOS cells will be very close to rail-rail (may not be in case of Pass Transistor) With constant input to any cell, power dissipation is only due to leakage currents. Power dissipation increase if activity factor is more (Short circuit current + charging & discharging of load)

A System on Chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that integrates all components of an electronic systems. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and radio-frequency modules—all on a single substrate. SoCs are very common in the mobile computing market because of their low power-consumption