1. Lecture 3 VLSI Physical Design VLSI design flow VLSI physical design
Physical design flow
Design style
Performance-driven physical design
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2. Lecture 3(cont.) VLSI design flow Discuss Figure 1.1 (p5)
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3. Lecture 3(cont.) VLSI physical design Discuss Figure 1.3 (p14)
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4. Lecture 3(cont.) Physical design flow Discuss Figure 1.4 (p16)
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5. Lecture 3(cont.) Design style Full custom Semi-custom
Discuss Figure 1.5 (p17)
Semi-custom
Gate array (Figure 1.8 and 1.7, p22-21)
Standard cell (Figure 1.6, p20)
FPGA (Figure 1.9, p23)
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6. Lecture 3(cont.) Performance-driven physical design Layout area Time
Delay and skew
Noise
Signal coupling and ground bounce
Low power
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7. Computation complexity
Graph model
Vertex or node
Edge
Directed edge and non-directed adge
Computation complexity
Polynimia
Sorting problems
Non-polynomial
Traveling sales man problem
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8. Lecture 3(cont.) Reading assignment
Read Chapter 1-3 and write a five page reading report
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