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EE4271 VLSI Design. Dr. Shiyan Hu Office: EERC 518. Manufacturing Process -II. Adapted and modified from Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective by Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolic. Challenge. 193 nm. Illumination source. 45 nm. Mask. Objective Lens.
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EE4271VLSI Design Dr. Shiyan Hu Office: EERC 518 ManufacturingProcess -II Adapted and modified from Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective by Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolic.
Challenge 193nm Illumination source 45nm Mask Objective Lens Aperture Wafer 2
Mask v.s. Printing Layout 0.25µ 0.18µ 0.13µ 90-nm 65-nm What you design is NOT what you get! 3
Motivation Chip design cannot be fabricated Gap Lithography technology: 193nm wavelength VLSI technology: 45nm features Lithography induced variations Impact on timing and power Even for 180nm technology, variations up to 20x in leakage power and 30% in frequency were reported.
Gap: Lithography Tech. v.s. VLSI Tech. 28nm, tolerable distortion: 2nm 193nm Increasing gap Printability problem (and thus variations) more severe! 5
Design Rules • Interface between designer and process engineer • Guidelines for constructing process masks • Unit dimension: Minimum line width • scalable design rules: lambda parameter • absolute dimensions (micron rules)
Lambda Rule • Every distance in layout rules is specified by lambda • Given a process, lambda is set to a specific value. • Process technology is defined using minimum line width. 0.25um technology means minimum line width is 0.25um. Lambda=minimum line width/2. • For a 0.25um process, lambda=0.125um • In practice, scaling is often not linear. • Industry usually uses micron rule and lambda rule is used only for prediction/estimation of the impact of technology scaling to a design.
Intra-Layer Design Rules 4 Metal2 3 Rules are used to mitigate fabrication error
Design Rule Checker poly_not_fet to all_diff minimum spacing = 0.14 um.
Wire Bonding (not printed) Bond wire
Imprinted Tape-Automated Bonding Disadvantage: Must place I/O pins at the specific locations (i.e., around the boundary on the die).
Flip-Chip Bonding • Flip-Chip places connection across the chip rather than around boundary. • The bond wire is replaced with solder bump balls directly placed on the die surface • Chip is flipped upside down • Carefully align to package • Heat to melt solder bump balls