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A Design Flow in VLSI Design Is The Sequence of Process/ Steps Involve in Making Integrated Circuit

The VLSI design flow outlines the sequential steps involved in creating integrated circuits, starting from system specification to packaging and testing. Key stages include architecture design, functional design, logic design, circuit design, and physical design, culminating in fabrication and debugging. The design can be described through behavioral, structural, and physical domains.

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A Design Flow in VLSI Design Is The Sequence of Process/ Steps Involve in Making Integrated Circuit

The VLSI design flow outlines the sequential steps involved in creating integrated circuits, starting from system specification to packaging and testing. Key stages include architecture design, functional design, logic design, circuit design, and physical design, culminating in fabrication and debugging. The design can be described through behavioral, structural, and physical domains.

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VLSI design flow

• A design flow in VLSI design is the sequence of process/ steps involve in


making integrated circuit.
Logic
System Architecture Functional Logic
Circuit
Specification design design design
design

Packaging Physical
Chip Fabrication
and testing design
• System Specification: The first step of any design process is to set the
specifications of the systems. The factors to be considered in these step are:
and physical dimensions, functionality, performance,(Size, Speed, Power).
• Architecture design: The basic architecture of the system is design in tis
step. The architecture design of a VLSI circuit begins with the development
of the idea of the main module that will be followed.
This also includes number of ALU, floating point units and number and
pipelines, and size of caches among other.
• Functional Design: In this step main functional units of the system are
identify. This also identifies the interconnected requirements between the
units. The area , power and other parameters of each unit. The key idea is
to specify behaviour in term of inputs, output and timing of each unit,
without specifying its internal structure. The output of functional design is
timing diagram.
Layout
• Logic Design: in this step the control flow, word width, register
allocation, arithmetic operations, logic operations of the design that
represent.
• Circuit Design: The circuit design if usually expressed in a detail circuit
diagram. The diagram shows circuit elements(Cells, gates, transistors)
• Physical design: The geometric representation of a circuit is called a
layout. Layout is created by converting each components.
• Fabrication: After layout and verification, the design is ready for
fabrication. Since layout data is send to fabrication on a tape. Layout
data is converted into photo-lithographic masks. The fabrication
process consist of several steps involving deposition, diffusion of
various material on the wafer.

• Packaging, Testing and Debugging: Finally the wafer is fabricated and


cut into individual chips in a fabrication process chip used in PCB are
packaged in a dual line in package(DIP), Pin grid array(PGA), Ball grid
array(BGA).
Domains of VLSI design flow

The design description of VLSI circuit may be described in the form of


three domain:
1. Behavioral domain
2. Structural domain
3. Physical domain
Y Chart of VLSI design flow

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