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 Agenda India’s Contribution (few…)

India’s contributions to Semiconductor Industry

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

Very First Monolithic IC

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout

Real Transistor???

VLSI & IC Design Flow

Logic Synthesis
Processors (x386,x486) & Pentium

Physical Design
(x586)

Video Clips!

Latest Developments
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September Consultant
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India’s Contribution (few…) Agenda

India’s contributions to Semiconductor

Industry
First Multi-National Company (MNC) in India
Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits
Texas Instruments, Bangalore in 1985
TI Digital Signal Processors (DSP)
TI Multimedia Application Processors
(OMAP)

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Evolution to VLSI & ICs Agenda

Transistor Invented at Bell Labs in 1947
India’s contributions to Semiconductor

Bipolar transistor invented by Schockley in 1949 Industry

First bipolar digital logic gate invented by Harris in 1956

First monolithic IC invented by Jack Kilby in 1959
Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

First commercial IC logic gates invented by Fairchild in 1960
Very First Monolithic IC

MOSFET transistor - Lilienfeld (Canada) in 1925 & Heil
(England) in 1935

CMOS – 1960’s, but plagued with manufacturing problems

PMOS in 1960’s (calculators)

NMOS in 1970’s (4004, 8080) – for speed

CMOS in 1980’s – preferred MOSFET technology because of
power benefits
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 First Monolithic IC (1959) Agenda

India’s contributions to Semiconductor

Industry

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

Very First Monolithic IC

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout
JACK
KILBY

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Pentium 4 Processor (Now….) Not Only Microprocessors!!!

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Agenda Real Transistor????

India’s contributions to Semiconductor

Industry

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

Very First Monolithic IC

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout

Real Transistor???

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 Real Transistor???? Transistors Realized on Silicon

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Agenda VLSI

India’s contributions to Semiconductor Very Large Scale Integration

Industry
Technology to built Transistors and the

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits circuitry connecting them on a chip

Very First Monolithic IC composed of silicon base.

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout – design/manufacturing of extremely small, complex
circuitry using modified semiconductor material

Real Transistor??? – integrated circuit (IC) may contain millions of

VLSI & IC Design Flow transistors, each a few µm in size
– applications wide ranging:
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the electronic
18, 2009 devices

VLSI (contd..) Integrated Circuits (ICs)

Digital logic is implemented using transistors in integrated circuits
Also known as IC, microcircuit,
containing many gates. microchip, silicon chip, or chip
– small-scale integrated circuits (SSI) contain 10 gates or less
A miniaturized electronic circuit that has
– medium-scale integrated circuits (MSI) contain 10-100 gates been manufactured in the surface of a
– large-scale integrated circuits (LSI) contain up to 104 gates thin substrate of semiconductor material
– very large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI) contain >104 gates
like Silicon (si).

Improvements in manufacturing lead to ever smaller transistors
allowing more per chip.
– >107 gates/chip now possible; doubles every 18 months or so
(MOORE’s LAW)

Variety of logic families
– TTL - transistor-transistor logic
– CMOS - complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
– ECL - emitter-coupled logic
From Howe, Sodini: Microelectronics:An
– GaAs - gallium arsenide
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 VLSI & IC Design Flow VLSI & IC Design Flow (contd.)

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Agenda Logic Synthesis

India’s contributions to Semiconductor

Industry

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

Very First Monolithic IC

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout

Real Transistor???

VLSI & IC Design Flow

Logic Synthesis
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Agenda VLSI & IC Design Flow (contd.)

India’s contributions to Semiconductor

Industry

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

Very First Monolithic IC

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout

Real Transistor???

VLSI & IC Design Flow

Logic Synthesis
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 VLSI & IC Design Flow (contd.) Agenda

India’s contributions to Semiconductor

Industry

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

Very First Monolithic IC

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout

Real Transistor???

VLSI & IC Design Flow

Logic Synthesis
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Physical Design

Physical Synthesis/Design Agenda

India’s contributions to Semiconductor Industry

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

Very First Monolithic IC

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout

Real Transistor???

VLSI & IC Design Flow

Logic Synthesis

Physical Design

Video Clips!

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Video Clips Video Clip 1

First Clip
Narrates the IC Fabrication

Second Clip
Microprocessor Design & Development

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 One More !!!!! Agenda

India’s contributions to Semiconductor Industry

Evolution to VLSI & Integrated Circuits

Very First Monolithic IC

Latest Pentium 4 Processor Layout

Real Transistor???

VLSI & IC Design Flow

Logic Synthesis

Physical Design

Video Clips!

Latest Developments
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Latest Developments What Next???

System On Chip
Single Electron

(SOC) Transistor (SET)

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Typical Chip Block Diagram

XmitRcv
(250MHz) (1000MHz) DCR Peripheral Bus Access Module Clocks and Resets (250MHz)
UIC SHELL
L2 Cache PPC440 Config (250MHz)
UIC Internal Peripherals Parallel Bus I/F
250 FLASH, NVSRAM, SHELL
1000 UIC PLB-0 (250MHz) (333MHz)
UART, I2C, GPIO, LPC, SD/MMC,
Timer, Led other SHELL
PLB-1 (250MHz) (533MHz)
(250MHz) (1000MHz) DCR SMB
UIC
PLB-2 (250MHz) (533MHz)
L2 Cache PPC440
UIC
UIC (1067MHz) DDR3 Channel DDR3 Channel (1067MHz)

PLB to SMB
MIF (533MHz)

Msg
Unit

Shell
10/100/1000 to
(125MHz) ESF ESF DMA SPMON ESF DMA
Ethernet x2 SMB

Context PDMA
RAM
PDMA

AHB
Master/Slave

ANY Q’s
Config Regs
Root
Port Bridge

Bridge
Bridge

Bridge

Blade
DMA/XOR Bridge

Shell
Bridge ATOM
SAS Router to
SMB Bridge

Config Config
Regs Regs

Nova Sentinel TLayer TLayer TLayer

(250MHz) (150MHz) (250MHz) (250MHz) (250MHz)
PCIe core x8 SAS core x16 PCIe core x8 PCIe core x8 PCIe core x8

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 Careers in VLSI Domain for Careers in VLSI Domain for
Freshers! Freshers!

Position:
Position:
– Front End/RTL Design Engineer – Functional/RTL Verification Engineer

Requirements:
Requirements:
– Strong knowledge in Digital & Electronics (CMOS) basics
– Strong knowledge in Digital & Electronics (CMOS) basics
– Programming skills using VHDL/Verilog, System Verilog,
– Programming skills using VHDL/Verilog SVA, System C, Vera, e-Specman
– Practical knowledge on EDA Tools for ASIC/FPGA – Practical knowledge on EDA Tools for ASIC/FPGA
development (like NCSim-Cadence, VCS, Design Compiler- development (like NCSim-Cadence, VCS, Design Compiler-
Synopsys, ModelSim-Mentor Graphics & Magma)
Synopsys, ModelSim-Mentor Graphics & Magma)
– Basic knowledge on VLSI design/circuits (additional)
– Basic knowledge on VLSI design/circuits (additional) – Scripting using TCL/Tk, PERL, SHELL

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Careers in VLSI Domain for Careers in VLSI Domain for

Freshers! Freshers!

Position:
Position:
– Synthesis/Static Timing Analysis (STA) Engineer (only for – Back End/Physical Design Engineer (only for ASIC/SOC)
ASIC/SOC)
Requirements:

Requirements: – Strong knowledge in Digital & Electronics (CMOS) basics
– Strong knowledge in Digital & Electronics (CMOS) basics – Strong knowledge on VLSI Design & IC Libraries
– Strong Knowledge on VLSI Design & IC Libraries – Practical knowledge on EDA Tools for ASIC
– Practical knowledge on EDA Tools for ASIC synthesis & synthesis/layout/parasitic extraction/analog modeling
timing analysis – Scripting using TCL/Tk, PERL, SHELL
– Scripting using TCL/Tk, PERL, SHELL

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Careers in VLSI Domain for Careers in VLSI Domain for

Freshers! Freshers!

Position:
Position:
– Circuit Design Engineer (only for ASIC/SOC) – IC Fabrication Engineer (only for ASIC/SOC)

Requirements:
Requirements:
– Strong knowledge in Digital & Electronics (CMOS) – Strong knowledge in Digital & Electronics (CMOS)
basics basics
– Strong knowledge on VLSI Design & IC Libraries – Strong knowledge on VLSI Design & IC Libraries
– Practical knowledge on EDA Tools for ASIC – Strong knowledge on IC Fabrication Technologies
analog modeling & simulation – Practical knowledge on IC Fabrication Tools
– Scripting using TCL/Tk, PERL, SHELL
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