Top Research Papers on VLSI Design PDF

Very large scale integrated circuits are difficult to test once fabricated, due to the large number of internal circuit nodes that are not accessible as probe points, and the small number of primary inputs and outputs available to exercise and observe these internal nodes.

The proposed approach approximates the circuit performances, such as gain and delay, by fitted models, and uses them as surrogates of the circuit simulator to predict and optimize the parametric yield with computation efficiency and to achieve off-line quality control.

An overview of LSI/VLSI systems that brings together all their engineering aspects with economical considerations such as production volume economy, yield economy, chip pricing, and custom design methodology. Offers clear, concise explanations of how to design LSI/VLSI chips and what advantages and disadvantages accompany their use. The well-illustrated text includes worked examples as well as extensive references for further study.

During the period covered by the grant, two books and ten research papers were written under grant sponsorship, and nineteen of the researchpapers were written and published in conference proceeding.

An algorithm for performing area-time efficient division, on-line techniques for performing bit-serial calculations, and iterative algorithms for performing square root are described.

An analysis of the MacPitts silicon compiler is presented, with the emphasis on the interrelationshp between algorithmic syntax and resulting circuit structure.

This paper describes the design of a very large scale integration (VLSI) application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for use in pattern recognition and resolved the long delay time of the multiplier by custom designing adder cells based on the Manchester carry chain.

This thesis proposes to reduce the complexity of the design problem and the design time by using a high-level language to specify only the behavioral aspects of a circuit.

This research has the potential to provide savings of time and effort to engineers designing new circuits or reverse-engineering older circuits for which no adequate specifications exist and will also help to close the design cycle.

The generalized Design Procedure for CAD circuit design is discussed; the connnercial CADs offered by CALMA and the Caesar System, supported by the Berkeley design tools are illustrated.

The report describes the improvement in fault tolerance obtained as a result of implementing these EDAC schemes and the associated penalties in circuit area.

Quelques approches de complexite comme les methodes heuristiques sub-optimales, the creation of logiciels and l'intelligence artificielle, sont examinees.

This thesis is an introduction to the use of computer-aided design tools for the design of very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI) and a tutorial is given which illustrates their use in the computing environment at the Naval Postgraduate School.

This research builds logic design and layout for basic logical gates, such as NOT, AND and SOP ( Sum of Product ).

This paper presents a comparative study of Field Programmable Gate Array implementation of standard multipliers using Verilog HDL, finding significant reduction in FPGA resources, delay, and power can be achieved using Reduced Wallace multipliers with Koggestone adder instead of standard parallel multipliers.

The process of employing the MacPitts silicon compiler to design an 8-bit pipelined digital multiplier is presented, and the resulting design is evaluated.

VLSI is concerned with forming a pattern of interconnected switches and gates on the surface of a crystal of semiconductor that has made highly sophisticated control systems mass-producable and therefore cheap.

This program accepts process schedules as inputs and provides predicted device structures as outputs and it is meant to be capable of accurately simulating both bipolar and MOS VLSI structures.

The proposed DSNN can substantially increase detection accuracy for the task of ECG heartbeat classification by doubling the input signal using a data shifting scheme so that the amount of information for training may be adequately sufficient.

The generalized Design Procedure for CAD circuit design is discussed; the connnercial CADs offered by CALMA and the Caesar System, supported by the Berkeley design tools are illustrated.

The very large scale integrated circuit design course at Seattle University is discussed, with reference to the different kinds of software used since the course's inception in 1987, and the adoption of the Verilog hardware description language.

This study introduces a conceptual framework representing flows and transformations of various descriptions to be used as a tracking appara tus for directing traffic during the VLSI design process, and demonstrates a viable description method that can be adapted for different stages and used in developi ng systems for managing the VLP design process.

This invention relates to computer-aided design techniques to generate custom L SI and VLSI devices using various technologies to reduce the cost and design time of complex and sophisticated custom LSI and V LSI devices.

A design methodology for precision analog functions in VLSI by choosing a digital-to-analog converter as an example is produced and the major emphasis will be on the device and technological aspects of the design approach.

This paper mainly focuses on the designing issues associated with the VLSI, the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistor-based circuits into on a single chip.

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Modified decoding algorithms for DS codes are proposed that provide error detection when the number of correctable bit errors is exceeded by one and combined error detection and correction capability of the modified decoder are provide.

A system design to ascertain correct functioning of a VLSI circuit by using Standard IC Tester, (developed at Standford University, California), which has the capability of addressing, simulating, and measuring status of any pin of its test connector, to which an ICUT (IC Under Test) is attached.

This research presents a meta-analyses of the response of the immune response of central nervous systems to various types of external stimuli and shows clear patterns of decline in the severity of immune responses to certain types of attacks.

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This book contains extended and revised versions of the best papers presented at the 18th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2010, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2010. The 14 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from the 52 full papers presented at the conference. The papers cover a wide variety of excellence in VLSI technology and advanced research. They address the current trend toward increasing chip integration and technology process advancements bringing about stimulating new challenges both at the physical...

Dielectric films are an integral part of the integrated circuits. Key applications can be classified as, (i) dielectrics for growing semiconductor films e.g., silicon on insulator, (ii) layer of dielectric films which do not appear in the finished device e.g., dielectrics for diffusion and ion implantation masks, and (iii) permanent dielectric films which play a key role in the electrical operation of the circuit e.g., gate dielectric in a MOSFET. In this paper a review is presented of the dielectrics with main emphasis on the permanent dielectric films. Techniques for forming dielectric films...

The technical contributions presented in this book will not only shorten the product development cycle, but also accelerate the adoption and further development of modern flow-based microfluidic biochips, by facilitating the full exploitation of design complexities that are possible with current fabrication techniques.

Experimental observation with the benchmark circuits suggests that this technique produces placement with net-terminal characteristics appropriate for high performance circuits, and the results demonstrate that the dual floorplanning approach is robust, without resorting to general rectilinear shaped cells.

The scan path solution, the built-in self test solution and the boundary scan solution of design for testability are summarized and the character and application strategy of these solutions are analyzed.

This paper presents a clustered placement methodology that improves both turnaround time and final-routed solution quality and a PPA-aware clustering that considers timing, power and logical hierarchy during netlist clustering, effectively reducing problem size and accelerating global placement runtime while improving post-route PPA metrics.

A comparison between the full custom carry-save addition (CSA) multiplier designed using CAD tools and a multiplier generated by the MacPitts silicon compiler is presented.

The multi-layer cognitive model concept invented by this project has significant innovation potential in the area of optical text recognition, machine learning and natural language processing.

The paper describes the outline of the design automation system which provides the following design methods: Higher level structural drawings capable of expressing designs with Boolean equations and truth tables.

The paper describes the outline of the design automation system which provides the following design methods: higher level structural drawings capable of expressing designs with boolean equations and truth tables and automated logic synthesis generating detailed logic just as designers expect.

The rules and overall methodology governing standard cell very large scale integration (VLSI) design are described, which represents a growing trend in custom parts and falls in between the implementation of arrays of logic gates and the Implementation of full custom designs.

A Computer Aided-Design (CAD) software module for useful-skew tree synthesis in deep-sub-micron VLSI design is proposed and successfully synthesizes clock trees that satisfy the entire clock skew constraints, and at the same time, achieve a shorter wire-length.

Abstract : This report covers a program designed to realize the full potential of GaAs integrated circuits by expanding and improving fabrication and material techniques. The main accomplishment of the program was the successful implementation of the fabrication of integrated circuits on 3-inch diameter GaAs wafers. In addition, this program covered many activities related to GaAs IC processing. These include: work on semi-insulating material growth and characterization, investigation of ion implantation techniques (work carried out at the California Institute of Technology); evaluation of dev...

This study aims to showcase the vital role of AI/ML in reducing complexity in VLSI chip design life cycle by automating test pattern generation and fault detection, enhancing efficiency and accuracy, and significantly reducing the time and resources needed for design verification and optimization.

VLSI testing poses a number of problems which includes the selection of test techniques, the determination of acceptable fault coverage levels, and test vector generation.

A model of ultra-large-scale integrated circuits is established and the model architecture from basic circuit units to complex circuit units is studied, and the unconstrained and constrained parametric optimization problems with electrical parameters are investigated.

This report summarizes progress in the DARPA funded VLSI Systems Research Projects from December 1986 to March 1987.

We present on the demonstration of a number of critical device technologies including record low power modulators, tunable filters, and integrated lasers, along with the world's largest silicon photonic circuit, integrated on a 300mm platform.

This report describes work performed on the Restructurable VLSI program sponsored by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency during the period 1 April through 30 September 1984.

This project is to perform Analog Very Large Scaled of Integration (VLSI) testing and the analysis of combinational circuits using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools and the GUI is used as interface for users to explore and understand the analog combinational circuit testing.