Systems on Chip

Garant předmětu:

Jiří Jakovenko

Lecturer:

Jiří Jakovenko, Vladimír Janíček, Jan Novák, Tomáš Teplý

Tutor:

Jiří Jakovenko, Vladimír Janíček, Jan Novák, Tomáš Teplý

Supervisor:

Department of Microelectronics

Synopsis:

Main responsibilities of integrated circuits designer; design abstraction levels - Y chart. Specification designation, feasibility study, criteria for technology and design kits selection. Analogue and digital integrated systems design and simulation methodologies. Main features of application specific ICs - full custom design, gate arrays, standard cells, programmable array logic. Design aspects mobile and low power systems. Hardware Description languages (HDL). Logic and physical synthesis. Frond End and Back End design. Floorplanning, place and route, layout, parasitic extraction, time analysis, testbenche construction and verification.

Requirements:

The students are expected to have a good understanding of the electronic components principle (unipolar and bipolar transistor, etc.) and electronics circuit analysis. Students are expected to have knowledge of modelling and simulation of electronic circuits.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Main tasks of analogue and digital integrated circuits designer; design methodologies (top down, bottom up), design abstraction levels - Y chart.

2. Application specific integrated circuits systems types, full custom design, gate array, standard cells, programmable array logic; main features, economical aspect of the design.

3. Full customs integrated systems, feasibility study, specification, criteria for technology and design kits selection.

4. World standards and CAD tools for analog and mix-signal integrated circuits design, design of RF and mobile low power systems.

5. Design tools for automatic generation of analog behavior models, bottom up design methodology, macro blocks.

6. Design principles of mix-signal integrated circuits, purpose of hierarchical design, digital and analogue block interface, CAD design tools for automatic circuit generation; functional and static time analysis, formal verification; Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS, VHDL-A.

7. Hardware description languages -VHDL, Verilog, Verilog-A, Verilog-AMS.

8. Design tools and methodologies for digital integrated circuits and systems; language VHDL, Verilog; library cells; parameters extractions for library cells development.

9. Frond end design - functional specification, RTL, logic synthesis, Gate-level netlist, behavioral stimulus extraction.

10. Back End design - specification of Design Kit, mapping of the design, Floorplanning, place and route, layout, parasitic extraction, layout versus schema check (LVS).

11. Methods of physical synthesis, placement of functional blocks, power lines design and distribution, simulation of interconnect continuity, design verification.

12. Clock signal distribution, delay calculating, static and dynamic timing analysis.

13. Testing, design of testbenches, design verification methods.

14. Tape out and fabrication, integrated systems verification, scaling and design mapping to different technologies.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. CADENCE design system

2. CMOS Design kit description, library cells

3. Demonstration of mix-signal design - hierarchical structuring, design cells abstraction.

4. Demonstration of mix-signal design - simulations, interface definition, Spectre AMS simulator, corner analysis.

5. Analogue layout, parasitic extraction, design rule check, postlayout simulation.

6. Demonstration of mix-signal design - digital flow, back end, frond end.

7. Digital layout (Back End design), Floorplanning, routing, timing analysis.

8. Student project - design of mix-signal IC.

9. Student project - design of mix-signal IC.

10. Student project - design of mix-signal IC.

11. Student project - design of mix-signal IC.

12. Student project - design of mix-signal IC.

13. Student project - design of mix-signal IC.

14. Student project presentation, final assessment.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Michael Smith: Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison-Wesley, 1998

P. Gray, P Hurst, s. Lewis, R. Mayer: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, John Wiley and Sons, 2000

Note:

Further information:

https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/courses/B4M34ISC

Time-table for winter semester 2023/2024:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomT2:C3-135 Jakovenko J. Janíček V. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice T2:C3-135roomT2:B2-s141j Novák J. Janíček V. 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice Cvičebna K334 room Jakovenko J. Janíček V. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1) roomT2:C3-s143 Novák J. Janíček V. 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice POČ. UČEBNA
Wed
Thu	roomT2:B2-s141j Novák J. Teplý T. 14:30–16:00 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice Cvičebna K334roomT2:C3-s143 Janíček V. Teplý T. 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice POČ. UČEBNA roomT2:C3-s143 Novák J. Teplý T. 14:30–16:00 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice POČ. UČEBNAroomT2:B2-s141j Janíček V. Teplý T. 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice Cvičebna K334
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2023/2024:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Open Informatics - Computer Engineering (compulsory course of the specialization)