ASIC Design Flow
A design flow is a sequence of steps to design an ASIC
•Design entry.
•Logic synthesis.
•Pre-layout simulation.
•Floorplanning.
•Placement.
•Routing.
•Extraction.
•Postlayout simulation.
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ASIC Design Flow (con’t)
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Outline
History
Implementation methodologies
Design flow
Technology scaling
VLSI/IC economics
Future trends
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Moore’s Law
In 1965, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, predicted the exponential growth of the number of transistors on an IC (number of transistors per square inch in ICs to double every year)
Predicted > 65,000 transistors by 1975!
In subsequent years, the pace slowed down a bit, but density has doubled approximately every 18 months, and this is the current definition of Moore's Law.
Growth limited by power
Most experts, including Moore himself, expect Moore's Law to hold for at least another two decades
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