Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics

Electronics, Microelectronics, good understanding of C/C++ for those choosing Highly Complex Digital Circuits specialization. Basic transistor amplifier circuits (differential amp., operational amp.) for those choosing Microelectronic System Design specialization.

A kötelező előtanulmányi rend az adott szak honlapján és képzési programjában található.

The purpose of the laboratory is to allow students of VLSI circuits and Microelectronic System Design courses to practice their knowledge. Upon the first class, students can choose between two specializations:

·         Highly Complex Digital Circuits

·         Microelectronic System Design

During the semester, students get insight to modern computer aided design tools and simulators used in the industry. An example case-study task should be fulfilled during the semester where students learn the operation of the design tools.

The CAD tools and systems are introduced using either an analogue/MEMS design flow or a high level design flow of a digital system including hardware description and synthesis.

Design of Microelectronic Systems

In this analogue/MEMS design flow students get familiar with the Cadence Virtuoso circuit design CAD system. Schematic design, AC, DC and transient simulation tasks are executed in this environment. The full-custom layout of the integrated circuits is also designed using this CAD system. After layout design, post-layout simulations are executed to verify the correctness of the circuit. The MEMS part of the design is simulated and validated using the ANSYS finite element simulator.

Schedule:

Highly Complex Digital Circuits

High level system design is introduced in a whole-semester case-study. In this demonstration the SystemC high level system description is created of a microprocessor (MOS Technology 6502 8-bit microprocessor). The implemented processor is tested in the end of the semester with emulated peripheries. The communication between modules of the system is also modelled using transaction-level modelling (TLM). Using the implemented instruction-set, the emulated display and keyboard allows the design to be executable on a real hardware. During the semester, students implement the MOS 6502 8-bit microprocessor using a high level hardware description language. The SystemC language is used in an OpenSUSE Linux environment. The emulated display, keyboard and execution environment is provided by the SDL C multimedia framework.

Computer laboratory.

The course ends with a mid-term mark. The mid-term mark is based on the work during the semester and the assignments handed in. In the technology laboratory, the condition of the mid-term mark is to finish all process steps and hand in a report.

There is one repeat possibility in the supplementary period (at most 20% of the task can be made up). 

By appointment with the instructors.

·         Design system documentation and hand-outs (http://edu.eet.bme.hu)

·         Dr. Bognár György, ”Szemelvények VLSI áramkörök tématerületén”, Elektronikus jegyzet, 2011

·         SDL multimédia keretrendszer - https://www.libsdl.org, http://wiki.libsdl.org

·         SystemC - http://www.accellera.org/downloads/standards/systemc

·         J. Bashker: A SystemC Primer

·         Thorsten Grötker, Stan Liao, Grant Martin, Stuart Swan: System Design with SystemC

·         David C. Black, Jack Donovan, Bill Bunton, Anna Keist: SystemC: From the Ground Up

·         Wai-Kai Chen , ”The VLSI handbook”, CRC Press LLC, 2000. ISBN 0-8493-8593-8

·         Mohamed Gad-el-Hak, ”MEMS Design and Fabrication”, CRC Press LLC, 2006. ISBN 0-8493-9138-5

·         Stephen D. Senturia, „Microsystem design” Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002. ISBN 0-7923-7246-8