Practical Custom CMOS Chip Design.

Abstract

Customized or Application Specific ICs (ASICs) are being used increasingly as designers appreciate their benefits and its cost has reduced dramatically with the progress of CAD and processing technology. After a brief discussion of the benefits of the custom chip design route, the steps involved in the design cycle are outlined with particular emphasis on the practical aspects involved in translating circuit ideas to working silicon. Shared-wafer silicon services have reduced significantly the cost of Full-custom chips and some practical experiences of Full Custom CMOS chip design are outlined. The design, simulation and layout were all carried out at RSRE. The work was undertaken as part of a research program on novel cell architectures for DSP VLSI chip design within SP2. rh

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA195924

Entities

People

  • T. I. Browning

Organizations

  • Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Circuit Analysis
  • Circuits
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Engineering
  • Fabrication
  • Inverter Circuits
  • Inverters
  • Language
  • Logic
  • Logic Devices
  • Logic Gates
  • Materials
  • Signal Processing
  • Simulations
  • Standards

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design