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1、1,Innovation from IC Design to Personality Progress,Prof. Hong-Zhou Tan School of IST, Sun Yat-sen University Email: Oct 12, 2011,2,Outline,Introduction Algorithm Implementation Application Several Typical Microchips R&D and Personality Progress IC Design & RFID Technology Lab,3,Content,Introductio
2、n Algorithm Implementation Application Several Typical Microchips R&D and Personality Progress IC Design & RFID Technology Lab,4,Introduction,Related courses: AC, DC, High Frequency Circuit,Related courses: DSP, Signal and System, Communication,5,IC Design and Implementation,6,Content,Introduction A
3、lgorithm Implementation Application Several Typical Microchips R&D and Personality Progress IC Design & RFID Technology Lab,7,Algorithm,The theoretical support of ECE A finite sequence of instructions, an explicit, step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. often used for calculation and data pro
4、cessing. A type of effective method: a list of well-defined instructions for completing a task, will when given an initial state, proceed through a well-defined series of successive states, eventually terminating in an end-state.,8,Content,Introduction Algorithm Implementation Application Several Ty
5、pical Microchips R&D and Personality Progress IC Design & RFID Technology Lab,9,Implementation Introduction,What is IC? Historical background of IC design IC design flows and tools IC Fabrication Process Board level design System level design,10,What is IC ?,An integrated circuit (IC) a chip or micr
6、ochip a semiconductor wafer on which thousands or millions of tiny resistors, capacitors, and transistors are fabricated. function as an amplifier, oscillator, timer, counter, computer memory, or microprocessor.,11,Classification of IC,By circuit scale： SSI、MSI、LSI、VLSI By intended application： Gene
7、ric IC and ASIC（Applications Specific Integrated Circuit) By features： Digital ASIC and analog ASIC SoC (System-on-Chip) By manufacture technology ： Full-custom ASIC Semi-custom ASIC Programmable ASIC,12,Chinese IC design house,13,Historical background of IC design,Background of IC design IC technol
8、ogys development,14,Background of IC design,Electronic component technology Tube - Transistor - Integrated Circuit Moores Law MSI - LSI - VLSI - Digital information age IC has been wildly used for computer、communication、consumer electronic、industrial electronic, etc.,15,Moores Law,?,16,Commandments,
9、Moores Law : The number of transistors on a chip doubles annually (modified to 18-24 mo. later) Rocks Law : The cost of semiconductor tools doubles every four years Machrones Law: The PC you want to buy will always be $5000 ($500-1000 now) Metcalfes Law : A networks value grows proportionately to th
10、e number of its users squared Wirths Law : Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating,17,Digital information age,digital why? Perfect reproduction Better for Communication and Storage Digital processing is easier to program Digital ICs are easier to design and manufacture Digital infor
11、mation/media is everywhere Digital does not always perform well Quantization errors Sampling rate Quality of AD/DA conversion circuits Errors may result in worse results,18,IC technologys development,Since the 1990s, the pace of the IC technologys development has become faster and faster. Its main f
12、eatures are: Smaller technology feature size Bigger chip size More transistor per chip Higher clock frequency Lower power supply More metallized layers More I/O interconnection,19,Technology feature size,Feature size reductions enabled by process innovations. Smaller features lead to more transistor
13、s per unit area and therefore higher density.,20,Number of transistors per chip,21,Area of a chip,22,Voltage of power supply,23,The number of layers,24,Clock frequency,25,General IC design flow,Front end,Back end,26,Front-end design tools,RTL simulation tools Verilog-XL (Cadence) : a standard sign o
14、ff simulator. NCVerilog (Cadence) : a compiled simulator, works as fast as VCS, and still maintains the sign off capabilities of Verilog-XL. VCS (Synopsys) : a compiled simulator like NCverilog. Modelsim (Model Technology): got good debugging capabilities, and nice GUI. Finsim (Fintronic) :This is 1
15、00% compatible simulator with Verilog-XL, runs on Linux, Windows and Solaris. Polaris (Avanti) : Cycle based simulator. Smash (Dolphin): mixed signal, Verilog, VHDL simulator.,27,Front-end design tools(cond),Debugging tools Debussy (SprintSoft) : a powerful debugging tool with a nice GUI. Modelsim (
16、Model Technology): popular and has a nice GUI. Logic synthesis tools Design Complier (Synopsys) : the most popular logic synthesizer, bottom-up approach Ambit (Cadence): a fast logic synthesizer, top-down approach,28,Back-end design tools,Silicon Ensemble (Cadence) : good for interface with Cadence synthesizer. Apollo (Avanti/Synopsys): used to be the most popular APR tool. Astro (Synopsys): new version of Apollo.,RC Extraction,Hyper Extract (Cade
