tamj@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Jinglun Tam) (07/25/89)
Hi, I am looking for couple of good books on IC layout/topology --- 1. what are the pitfalls 2. how people usually determine the general layout/topology for IC Anyone out there have any books of this kind in mind? If so , will you please mail me back? Thank you ! Jinglun Tam
davidc@vlsisj.VLSI.COM (David Chapman) (07/26/89)
In article <15766@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> tamj@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Jinglun Tam) writes: > >Hi, I am looking for couple of good books on IC layout/topology --- > 1. what are the pitfalls > 2. how people usually determine the general layout/topology for IC (I thought that this might be of general interest...) I don't know of any books on IC layout itself; usually people learn by example, experience, or mentor. Some of the books we use in our VLSI CAD tools work are: Introduction to VLSI Systems Carver Mead & Lynn Conway Addison-Wesley Publishing 1980 ISBN 0-201-04358-0 (The first book ever, a "classic" as it were. Highly dated by now; it doesn't even mention CMOS. Talks about system design, cell design, and layout. Doesn't really cover any in great detail. Everyone here has a copy that they read once and then leave on a shelf.) An Introduction to CAD for VLSI Stephen Trimberger Kluwer Academic Publishers 1987 ISBN 0-89838-231-9 (He used to work here; the software he describes is how our tools worked about 1983 or 1984. It doesn't really talk about layout styles so much as the tools you use to manipulate them.) The Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits Lance Glasser and Daniel Dobberpuhl Addison-Wesley Publishing 1985 ISBN 0-201-12580-3 (Talks about VLSI design from a transistor-level viewpoint, mostly, but has a chapter subsection on layout and partitioning techniques. This one isn't so commonly found in offices. It talks a lot about transistor operation and modelling.) Principles of CMOS VLSI Design - A Systems Perspective Neil Weste & Kamran Eshraghian Addison-Wesley Publishing 1985 ISBN 0-201-08222-5 (Talks a bit about NMOS circuits, but concentrates on CMOS design. Has a strong symbolic layout chapter but not a lot on hard-core layout design. There is one section on hard-core low-level layout, but it is a set of rules for a single-metal process and as such is a bit too restrictive now. You may be able to extend the rules to something useful. Has some pictures of sample symbolic layout in the one-layer metal process. This is probably your best choice for a first text.) You should be able to find most if not all of these books in any University bookstore, especially at Berkeley or Stanford. Note that a lot of them are published by Addison-Wesley; they have a whole series of VLSI books. I should add that the latter book (Weste & Eshraghian) is one that was used in my "Introduction to VLSI Systems" class (upper-class/graduate EE), and that the third book (Glasser & Dobberpuhl) is used in an IC circuit analysis class, both at Stanford. Standard disclaimers apply; I mention these books mostly because they are the ones in my personal library. I'm sure there are others. -- David Chapman {known world}!decwrl!vlsisj!fndry!davidc vlsisj!fndry!davidc@decwrl.dec.com