LEC 3.2 LAYOUT D E S I G N R U L E S & DESIGN RULE CHECKER (DRC) VLSI System Design LEC 3.2 LAYOUT D E S I G N R U L E S & DESIGN RULE CHECKER (DRC) Engr. Anees ul Husnain ( anees.buzdar@gmail.com ) Department of Computer Systems Engineering, College of Engineering & Technology, IUB
LAYOUT DESIGN RULES Design Rules: Bridges between technology capability and design considerations
Summary of Terminology body diffusion (n/p) source drain well tap contact metal track via polysilicon gate length/width gate oxide channel All these structures must obey the dimensions and separation rules dictated by the process fabrication facility
Process design rules Design rules change from fab to fab Fab examples: IBM, Intel, TI, TSMC, UMC, MOSIS Design rules change according to the process technology
Lambda rules Feature Size: minimum distance between source and drain of transistor Feature size = 2λ (@ 90nm feature size λ=45) According to Moore’s Law, how much does the feature size scale by every ~2 years?
Design rules and gate layout Lambda rules are conservative
More design rules MOSIS MOSIS Categories: MOS Interconnect Systems A commercial semi conductor manufacturing company. MOSIS Rules became standards. MOSIS Categories: SCMOS SUBM DEEP
MOSIS design rules
MOSIS design rules
Layout of a 3-input NAND gate
DESIGN RULE CHECKER To verify the design parameters set by the design engineering so that it doesn’t exceeds from the allowable limit provided by the fabrication engineer