Digital Circuits / Kanazawa Univ.

Custom LSI Design Project

This course provides you with experience of the practical design flow of the custom LSI. Your design will be fabricated in the semiconductor manufacturer and you will get a chip of your own design.

The academic licenses of the CAD tools are provided by VLSI Design and Education Center(VDEC), the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Synopsys, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Inc., and Mentor Graphics, Inc.
The standard cell library has been developed by Prof. Kobayashi, Kyoto Institute of Technology.

Available software for students

Logic Simulation	Cadence Verilog-XL
Logic Synthesis	Synopsys Design Compiler
Place and Route	Synopsys IC Compiler
Layout Editor	Cadence Virtuoso
Circuit Simulator	Cadence Spectre
Design Rule Check	Mentor Calibre

Design Example

The students will work through an example of Lticka (Flicker circuit of LED) and learn the practical design flow and how to use CAD tools. Then, you can design your one-of-a-kind chip.

Circuit Specifications
HDL samples
LED

DIV

PWM

BLNK

Testbench

Instruction Manual

Requirements

The students has to hand in next assignments.

Stream file (GDS-II format) of the circuit and micro-art
Specification and block diagram of the circuit
List of the IO-pins and electrical specification of each IO-pin

References

kitagawa@is.t.kanazawa-u.ac.jp