1. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Design and Implementation of VLSI Systems (EN0160) Prof. Sherief Reda Division of Engineering, Brown University Spring 2007 [sources: Weste/Addison Wesley – Rabaey/Pearson]

2. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Design Layout using Tanner L-Edit

3. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 How can we design the layout for an inverter?

4. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Design Rules

5. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 1. First specify λ (using 0.5μ technology)

6. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 N well creation

7. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Active region

8. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 P-Select

9. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 N-select

10. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Active well/substrate taps

11. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Select for taps

12. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Polysilicon

13. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Metal 1

14. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Contacts (to active)

15. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Contacts to poly

16. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Contacts to poly

17. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Little metal1 for input pin

18. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Via1 from metal1 to metal2

19. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Add little metal2 for output pin

20. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Design Rule Checker (DRC) verifies that your layout did not violate any rules ignore these now error

21. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Label your inverter pins

22. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Extract your design into SPICE to simulate and verify it

23. S. Reda EN160 SP’07 Verify your inverter DC characteristics in SPICE Fix your SPICE input file first simulate and plot