The necessities in SOC Design

Overview

• SoC in the wikipedia pages (pdf)

Fabrication of VLSI Circuits

• Fabrication in the wikipedia pages (pdf)
• Wafer (pdf)
• Mask (pdf)
• Package (pdf)
• Test (pdf)

• CMOS Fabrication (pdf)

Device Level Design

• MOSFET Transistor (pdf)
• CMOS Inverter (pdf)

• Digital Implementation (pdf) - ASIC, FPGA
• Analog Implementation (pdf) - Linear IC, Power IC, RF IC, Mixed Signal IC

Performance Metrics

• Device R, C (pdf)
• Device Size (pdf)
• Device Delay (pdf)
• Device Power (pdf)

Device Level Design Tools

• Spice Simulator
• VLSI CAD tools - Layout, Floorplanning, Placement and Routing, Physical Verification (LVS/DRC/ERC)

Transistor Level Design

• Combinational Designs (pdf)
• Sequential Designs (pdf)
• Subsystem
  • Arithmetic Subsystem (pdf)
  • Memory Array Subsystem (pdf)
  • Logic Array Subsystem

Performance Metric

• Gate Area (pdf)
• Gate Delay (pdf)
• Gate Power (pdf)

Design Issues

• Clock
• PLL & DLL
• I/O

Transistor Level Design Tools

• Spice

Gate Level Design

• Combinational Designs (pdf)
• Sequential Designs (pdf)
• Subsystem
  • Arithmetic Subsystem (pdf)
  • Memory Array Subsystem (pdf)
  • Logic Array Subsystem

Performance Metric

• Gate Count
• Path Delay (pdf)
• Switch Activity (pdf)

Design Issues

• Static Timing Analysis
• Scan and Boundary Scan Cells
• Formal Verification

Gate Level Design Tools

• Verilog
• VHDL
• Static Timing Analysis
• Formal Verification

RTL Level Design

• Register (pdf)
• FSM (pdf)
• One Hot Controller
• Pipeline (pdf)

Performance Metric

• Estimation of
  • Gate Count
  • Critical Path
  • Power
• Latency
• Throughput

Design Issues

• Partitioning and Coding Style
• Constraining Designs
• Optimizing Designs
• Design for Test (DFT)
• Pre-layout & Post-layout Simulation

RTL Design Tools

• Verilog
• VHDL
• Logic Synthesis

Architecture Level Design

Background: Tiny CPU Examples

• (Instruction Set)
• (Data Path)
• (Control Path)

• Processors (pdf)
• Memories (pdf)

- Cache Memory

Readings (pdf)

Cache Note (pdf)

See also Content Addressable Memory (pdf), Address Partition (pdf), Cache Mapping (pdf)

- Virtual Memory

Readings (pdf)

- DRAM

Readings (pdf)

See also RAM Structure (pdf), RAM Timing (pdf), FPGA RAM (pdf)

• Interconnecting Buses

- AMBA AHB & APB

Readings (pdf)

• CISC, RISC, VLIW, Dataflow (1.pdf)
• CPU, DSP, GPU, NPU (2.pdf)
• MCU, ASIP, TTA (3.pdf)

Design Issues

• Memory Hierarchy
• Storage and I/O
• Instruction Level Parallelism
• Data Level Parallelism
• Thread Level Parallelism

Design Tools

• ADL (Architecture Design Language)

- LISA, EXPRESSION, nML, ArchC

• SystemC TLM (Transaction Level Modeling)

System Level Design

• IP : OCP-IP, OpenCore

Typical SOC's

• Embedded System
• MPSOC
• NoC

Design Issues

• Transaction Level Modeling
• Hardware Software Partition
• Hardware Software Co-simulation
• Integration of Hardware IP Blocks
• Integration of Software IP Modules
• FPGA Based Emulation Platform

Design Tools

• High-Level Synthesis
• HVL (High-Level Verification Language)

- SystemC Verifcation (SCV) (See "SystemC programming in plain view")

- SystemVerilog

• Mixed Signal

- VHDL-AMS

- Verilog-AMS

- SystemC-AMS

Design Flow

HW/SW Design Examples : Traffic Controller Design

• HW/SW Implementation Overview (pdf)

Implementation in Hardware

• RTL Design Examples (pdf)
• Gate Level Design Examples (pdf)
• Transistor Level Design Examples (pdf)

Implementation in Software

• SW Implementation Without an OS (Bare Machine)

- Overview (pdf)

- Micro-controller Programming (pdf)

• SW Implementation with an RTOS (pdf)

RTL / Logic Level Design

• Logic Synthesis
• Logic Simulation
• Logic Timing Verification
• Logic Power Verification
• Test Synthesis
• Test Verification
• Testbench
• Code Coverage
• Equivalence Check
• Timing Verification
• Design Constraint
• STA (Static Timing Analysis)
• Scan Chain
• Back Annotation
• ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation)

• See also SoC Design and Modelling Greave's Tutorial
  

Physical Design

• Floorplanning
• Placement
• Routing
• Power Network
• Clock Distribution
• Physical Verification
• DRC (Design Rule Check)
• DV (Design Verification)
• GV (Geometry Verification)
• LVS (Layout Versus Schematic)
• SV (Schematic Verification)

Test

• Design For Test
• ATPG (Automatic Test Pattern Generation)
• Analog and Mixed Signal Test
• JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) IEEE 1149.1
• Embedded Core Test IEEE 5000

test access mechanisms (TAMs)

Core test language (CTL)

Logical Verification

• Assertion Based Verification
• Transaction Level Models
• Formal Property Verification

2016 Spring Class

• Some useful links in VLSI design (1.pdf, 2.pdf)
• SystemC Projects (1.pdf) updated
• SystemC Installation Guide (pdf)
• OpenRISC ISS or1ksim Installation Guide (pdf)

• HW#1 (pdf)
• HW#2 (pdf)
• HW#3 (pdf)
• HW#4 (pdf)
• HW#6 (pdf)
• HW#7 (pdf) - Pipeline Burst EDO DRAM
• finallist (pdf)

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References

• The necessities in Digital Design ‎
• The necessities in Computer Design ‎
• The necessities in Computer Architecture ‎
• The necessities in Computer Organization ‎

• Understanding VLSI Design

• VHDL programming in plain view"
• SystemC programming in plain view"

asic-world.com

For ASIC design flow, See
ASIC design flow (lth.edu)

For Tiny CPU, See
Tiny CPU

For general buses, See
PCI bus
general buses
old buses

For AMBA, See
Embedded Processor & AMBA
AMBA overview

For DDR, See
DDR overview
DDR

For UART, See
UART Overview
ARM UART Notes

For DMA, See
DMA OVerview
DMA & IO
DMA & OS

For Embedded Programming, See
Embedded Programming
Discovering STM32 microcontroller
For TLM, See
TLM Overview
TLM
TLM & AMBA

For the final, Computer Arch
VHDL Primer (upenn.edu)
ASIC design flow (lth.edu)
Tiny CPU
Memory
DRAM
GPIO, UART, DMA, Int/Poll
UART Overview
GPIO Programming
AMBA Bus
ARM
TLM
TLM