Now in a thoroughly revised second edition, this practical practitioner guide provides a comprehensive overview of the SoC design process. It explains end-to-end system on chip (SoC) design processes and includes updated coverage of design methodology, the design environment, EDA tool flow, design decisions, choice of design intellectual property (IP) cores, sign-off procedures, and design infrastructure requirements. The second edition provides new information on SOC trends and updated design cases. Coverage also includes critical advanced guidance on the latest UPF-based low power design flow, challenges of deep submicron technologies, and 3D design fundamentals, which will prepare the readers for the challenges of working at the nanotechnology scale. A Practical Approach to VLSI System on Chip (SoC) Design: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition provides engineers who aspire to become VLSI designers with all the necessary information and details of EDA tools. It will be a valuable professional reference for those working on VLSI design and verification portfolios in complex SoC designs

System-on-Package (SOP) is an emerging microelectronic technology that places an entire system on a single chip-size package. Where “systems” used to be bulky boxes housing hundreds of components, SOP saves interconnection time and heat generation by keep a full system with computing, communications, and consumer functions all in a single chip. Written by the Georgia Tech developers of the technology, this book explains the basic parameters, design functions, and manufacturing issues, showing electronic designers how this radical new packaging technology can be used to solve pressing electronics design challenges.

Contains 23 papers from the April 2000 workshop which identified system level design as a dominant VLSI research theme for the next decade. System design is converging on a model which combines general purpose commodity chips and full custom mixed analogy with digital application specific integrated circuits integrated via programmable gate arrays on custom printed circuit boards or complete silicon boards, creating a system-on-a-chip. Some of the papers discuss the constraints of complexity, power consumption, heat dissipation, mechanical packaging, ergonomics, and design effort. Other major topics are timing issues, analysis and synthesis of asynchronous circuits, and advances in multiplier design. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

The Complete, Modern Tutorial on Practical VLSI Chip Design, Validation, and Analysis As microelectronics engineers design complex chips using existing circuit libraries, they must ensure correct logical, physical, and electrical properties, and prepare for reliable foundry fabrication. VLSI Design Methodology Development focuses on the design and analysis steps needed to perform these tasks and successfully complete a modern chip design. Microprocessor design authority Tom Dillinger carefully introduces core concepts, and then guides engineers through modeling, functional design validation, design implementation, electrical analysis, and release to manufacturing. Writing from the engineer’s perspective, he covers underlying EDA tool algorithms, flows, criteria for assessing project status, and key tradeoffs and interdependencies. This fresh and accessible tutorial will be valuable to all VLSI system designers, senior undergraduate or graduate students of microelectronics design, and companies offering internal courses for engineers at all levels. Reflect complexity, cost, resources, and schedules in planning a chip design project Perform hierarchical design decomposition, floorplanning, and physical integration, addressing DFT, DFM, and DFY requirements Model functionality and behavior, validate designs, and verify formal equivalency Apply EDA tools for logic synthesis, placement, and routing Analyze timing, noise, power, and electrical issues Prepare for manufacturing release and bring-up, from mastering ECOs to qualification This guide is for all VLSI system designers, senior undergraduate or graduate students of microelectronics design, and companies offering internal courses for engineers at all levels. It is applicable to engineering teams undertaking new projects and migrating existing designs to new technologies.

Annotation Papers from a September 2001 symposium report on recent advances in areas of integrated circuits and systems design, including embedded systems, rapid prototyping, formal methods, codesign, CAD and test, analog, digital, and physical design, and low power and low voltage. Specific topics include communication architectures for system-on- chip, using the CAN protocol and reconfigurable computing technology for Web-based smart house automation, and optimizing BBD-based verification analyzing variable dependencies. Other subjects include interconnection length estimation at logic level, an environment to aid the synthesis of threephase analogue waveform using AHDL, and extending sequencing graphs for reconfigurable applications modeling. This work lacks a subject index. c. Book News Inc.

Offers a conceptual and methodological understanding of chip design, and of the fundamental principles in the computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and systems (CADCAS). The text covers where, why and how expert systems are used in subtasks of CADCAS, and in the integrated chip design system.