Lecture Material (PPTs) on Introduction to VLSI Design

Introduction to VLSI Design by Dr. Robert Reese

Dr. Robert ReesePh.D., Texas A&M University, 1985

Associate Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interests

• VLSI CAD Frameworks
• Computer Architecture
• High-Level System Synthesis
• VHDL Modeling
• Asynchronous Design 

1. Overview of VLSI Design, Chapter 1 (1.1 to 1.5).
2. MIPS Processor example, Chapter 1 (1.6-1.12).
3. CMOS Gate Layout, Chapter 1 (1.5), Chap 3 (3.1 to 3.3).
4. MOS Transistor Theory , Chapter 2.
5. Notes on transistor sizing , Chapter 2.
6. MOS Non-ideal Transistors , Chapter 2. News item on new gate materials for lower leakage, News item on technique for improving electron mobility, IBM Link on strained silicon
7. Inverter DC and Transient response , Chapter 2.
8. Basic RC inverter delay model, improving average delay, skewed gates
9. Notes on RC delay computation for static CMOS gates
10. Delay prediction using a 2D Lookup Table
11. Power Management ,Chapter 5
Interconnect (Wires) Chapter 6
12. Combinational Circuits, Chapter 9
13. Circuit Families, Chapter 9
14. DCVSL Logic, Chapter 9
15. Charge Coupling Problem, dynamic logic
16. Sequential Circuits
17. Clocking/Skew
18. Packaging, IO, Chapter 13
19. SRAMS , Chapter 12
20. Memory Decoding , Notes
21. CPU Evolution 

These lecture notes are information that I have put together from various knowledge sources; very little is original creation by myself. I have tried to give credit to original sources if at all possible. Several lectures are Powerpoint slides created by David Harrison, the author of our textbook.
DRAMs, Non-volatile Memories (basic SRAMS covered in VLSI 1)

1. DRAM Intro
2. Some notes on DRAM technology by David Morano, Northeastern Univ
3. Introduction to Non-volatile Memory

Clocks

1. Clocking Evolution
2. Synchronization

Power Management

1. Power Management

Arithmetic: Adders

1. Adders (David Harrison)

Design for Test

1. Design for Test (David Harrison)

Arithmetic: Shifting/Multiplication

1. Shifting/Multiplication

Arithmetic: Floating Point

1. Floating Point Introduction
2. Floating Point slides by Behrooz Parhami . These slides are from Dr. Parhami's textbook website and cover Chapters 17-20 from his textbook, Computer Arithmetic: Algorithms and Hardware Designs . Because of the large number of slides in this presentation, the following are the ones that we will discuss in class: 1-13, 33-34,40,41, 42.

44th DAC Talks (online)

1. TUESDAY KEYNOTE | Perspective of the Future Semiconductor Industry: Challenges and Solutions Speaker: Oh-Hyun Kwon - President, System LSI Division, Samsung Semiconductor Business
2. Thousand-Core Chips - A Technology Perspective, Shekhar Y. Borkar - Intel Corp.
3. 42.4 Multi-Core Design Automation Challenges Speaker/Author: John Darringer - IBM Corp

SOI Introduction
ASIC CAD Flows