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Integrated circuit design

Integrated circuit design, semiconductor design, chip design or IC design, is a sub-field of electronics engineering, encompassing the particular logic and circuit design techniques required to design integrated circuits (ICs). An IC consists of miniaturized electronic components built into an electrical network on a monolithic semiconductor substrate by…

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Fundamentals

Transistors Resistors Capacitors Interconnection Silicon

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Design process

Instruction set MP3 IEEE floating-point arithmetic Verilog Branch prediction

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Design lifecycle

IC Iteration Architecture Requirements Market opportunity

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Overview

Electronics engineering Logic Circuit design Integrated circuits Electronic components

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Overview

Electronics engineering
Logic Boolean logic
Circuit design
Integrated circuits
Electronic components Electronic component
Electrical network
Semiconductor
Photolithography
Digital Digital data
Analog Analog electronics
Microprocessors
FPGAs FPGA
RAM
ROM
Flash Flash memory
ASICs ASIC
RF
Op-amps Op-amp
Linear regulators Linear regulator
Phase locked loops Phase locked loop
Oscillators Oscillator
Active filters Active filter
Resistance Electrical resistance and conductance
Rules Design rules
Statistical
EDA software Electronic design automation

Fundamentals

Transistors
Resistors
Capacitors
Interconnection Interconnects (integrated circuits)
Silicon
Substrate Wafer (electronics)
P-n junction isolation
Dielectric isolation Dielectric isolation?action=edit&redlink=1
Contacts and vias Via (electronics)
Electromigration
ESD Electrostatic discharge
Placement Placement (EDA)
Design for testing
Automatic test pattern generation
Design for manufacturability
Signoff Signoff (electronic design automation)
Mask data preparation
Tape out
Wafer fabrication Semiconductor fabrication
Packaging Integrated circuit packaging
Die test Wafer testing
Post silicon validation
PDF
Yield analysis Yield (Circuit)
Reliability Reliability (semiconductor)
Failure analysis
Focused ion beams Focused ion beam
Electronic system-level
C++
VHDL

Design lifecycle

IC Integrated circuit
Iteration
Architecture
Requirements Requirement
Market opportunity
Product requirements document
Specification
Definition
Code
Design
Tapeout
Tests Quality control
Characterization data Characterization data?action=edit&redlink=1
End of life End-of-life (product)

Design process

Instruction set
MP3
IEEE floating-point arithmetic
Verilog
Branch prediction
Functional verification
Logic simulation
Formal methods
Hardware emulation
Lint Lint programming tool
Code coverage
Pentium FDIV bug
Intel
Design closure
Logic synthesis
Floorplanning
Clock insertion Clock distribution network
Clock trees Clock tree
Routing Routing (EDA)
Timing closure
Signal integrity
Making sure the mapping to logic was done correctly Formal equivalence checking
Checking that the manufacturing rules were followed faithfully Design rule checking
Photomasks Photomask

Analog design

Successors SPICE
PCells PCell
BJT
Gradients
Common centroid Common centroid?action=edit&redlink=1

Vendors

Synopsys
Cadence Cadence Design Systems
Mentor Graphics
Siemens

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Integrated circuit design

Nodes123

Edges122

Triples20

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.01626

Components1

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Integrated circuit design → Attention, Electromigration, ESD, Finally, IC, ICs, Integrated, The

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Important terminology

design ic chip analog rtl process digital circuit logic using devices used architecture ics semiconductor physical device phase components designs

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
microprocessors	instance of	Digital IC design is to produce components	0.80	text
FPGAs	instance of	Digital IC design is to produce components	0.80	text
memories	instance of	Digital IC design is to produce components	0.80	text
CPUs or GPGPUs can be implemented as ASICs	instance of	many software programs that run on general purpose processors	0.80	text
and vice versa	instance of	many software programs that run on general purpose processors	0.80	text
flip-flops	instance of	a diode or simple logic components	0.80	text
or logic gates with multiple inputs	instance of	a diode or simple logic components	0.80	text
ensuring that the device will power on	instance of	starting from very simple tests	0.80	text
to much more complicated tests which try to stress the part in various ways	instance of	starting from very simple tests	0.80	text
encodes in the MP3 format or implements IEEE floating-point arithmetic	instance of	Design at this stage often involves statements	0.80	text
that done by emulators can be carried out in FPGAs or special processors	instance of	Verification	0.80	text
and emulation replaced simulation	instance of	Verification	0.80	text

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