VLSI Design with Alliance Free CAD Tools: an Implementation Example

This paper presents the methodology used for a digital integrated circuit design that implements the communication protocol known as Serial Peri-pheral Interface, using the Alliance CAD System. The aim of this paper is to show how the work of VLSI design can be done by graduate and under-graduate st...

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Autores: Ramón Chávez-Bracamonte, Marco Antonio Gurrola-Navarro, Reyna Itzel García-López, Manuel Bandala-Sánchez
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:México
Institución:Universidad de Guadalajara
Repositorio:Redalyc-UDG
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:40440683011
Acceso en línea:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=40440683011
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ingeniería
SPI
VLSI design
Alliance CAD system
MOSIS Educational Program
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Sumario:This paper presents the methodology used for a digital integrated circuit design that implements the communication protocol known as Serial Peri-pheral Interface, using the Alliance CAD System. The aim of this paper is to show how the work of VLSI design can be done by graduate and under-graduate students with minimal resources and experience. The physical design was sent to be fabricated using the CMOS AMI C5 process that fea-tures 0.5 micrometer in transistor size, sponsored by the MOSIS Educatio-nal Program. Tests were made on a platform that transfers data from inertial sensor measurements to the designed SPI chip, which in turn sends the data back on a parallel bus to a common microcontroller. The results show the efficiency of the employed methodology in VLSI design, as well as the feasibility of ICs manufacturing from school projects that have in-sufficient or no source of funding.