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Module Aims
 IC Fabrication Technology,
 CMOS IC Fabrication Sequence,
 CMOS inverters,
 Design rules,
 Static CMOS Design,
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 Dynamic CMOS circuits,
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Pass transistor,
Read Only Memory,
 Random Access Memory,
 Sense amplifiers,
 Adders, multipliers,
 Testing of VLSI circuits

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Learning Outcomes

• The students will be able to design and


analyse various MOSFET and CMOS logic
circuits S . I N
T U N OTE
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Reading List
1. John P Uyemura, Introduction to VLSI Circuits
and Systems, Wiley India, 2006
2. S.M. SZE, VLSI Technology, 2/e, Indian Edition,
McGraw-Hill,2003 OTES.IN
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Why VLSI?
• Integration improves the design
– Lower parasitics = higher speed
– Lower power consumption
– Physically smaller S . I N
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• KT manufacturing cost -
Integration reduces
(almost) no manual assembly

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Module 1
Fabrication Technology

• Oxidation
•Photolithography
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•Etching
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•Ion Implantation
•Diffusion KTU
•Deposition

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VLSI Applications
• VLSI is an implementation technology for electronic circuitry - analogue or
digital
• It is concerned with forming a pattern of interconnected switches and
gates on the surface of a crystal of semiconductor
• Microprocessors
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– personal computers
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• Memory - DRAM / SRAM
• Special Purpose Processors - ASICS (CD players, DSP applications)
• Optical Switches
• Has made highly sophisticated control systems mass-producable and
therefore cheap

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Moore’s Law
• Gordon Moore: co-founder of Intel
• Predicted that the number of transistors per
chip would grow exponentially (double every
18 months) E S . I N
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• Exponential improvement in technology is a
natural trend:
– e.g. Steam Engines - Dynamo - Automobile

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The Cost of Fabrication

• Current cost $2 - 3 billion


• Typical fab line occupies 1 city block, employees a
few hundred employees
• Most profitable period is first
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• For large volume IC’s packaging and testing is
largest cost
• For low volume IC’s, design costs may swamp
manufacturing costs

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Technology Background
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What is a Silicon Chip?
• A pattern of interconnected switches and gates on the surface of a crystal
of semiconductor (typically Si)
• These switches and gates are made of
– areas of n-type silicon
– areas of p-type silicon
areas of insulator ES . I N

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lines of conductor (interconnects) joining areas together
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Aluminium, Copper, Titanium, Molybdenum, polysilicon, tungsten
• The geometryof these areas is known as the layout of the chip
• Connections from the chip to the outside world are made around the edge
of the chip to facilitate connections to other devices

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Switches
• Digital equipment is largely composed of switches
• Switches can be built from many technologies
– relays (from which the earliest computers were built)
– thermionic valves
– transistors
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E the following:
• The perfect digital switchN
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would have
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– use no power
– have an infinite resistance when off and zero resistance when on
• Real switches are not like this!

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Semiconductors and Doping
• Adding trace amounts of certain materials to semiconductors
alters the crystal structure and can change their electrical
properties
– in particular it can change the number of free electrons or holes
• N-Type
– semiconductor has free electrons
– dopant is (typically) phosphorus, arsenic, antimony
• P-Type E S . I N
semiconductor has freeU N O
holes
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dopant is (typically)
• Dopants are usually implanted into the semiconductor using
Implant Technology, followed by thermal process to diffuse the
dopants

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IC Technology
• Speed / Power performance of available
technologies
• The microelectronics evolution
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• SIA Roadmap N O T
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• Semiconductor Manufacturers 2001 Ranking

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Metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) and
related VLSI technology

• pMOS
• nMOS . I N
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• CMOS KTU N
• BiCMOS
• GaAs

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Basic MOS Transistors
• Minimum line width
• Transistor cross section
• Charge inversion channel
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• Source connected U to
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substrate
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• Enhancement vs Depletion mode devices
• pMOS are 2.5 time slower than nMOS due to
electron and hole mobilities

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Fabrication Technology
• Silicon of extremely high purity
– chemically purified then grown into large crystals
• Wafers
– crystals are sliced into wafers
wafer diameter is currently 150mm, 200mm, 300mm

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– wafer thickness <1mm
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surface is polished to optical smoothness
• Wafer is then ready for processing
• Each wafer will yield many chips
– chip die size varies from about 5mmx5mm to 15mmx15mm
– A whole wafer is processed at a time

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Fabrication Technology
• Different parts of each die will be made P-type
or N-type (small amount of other atoms
intentionally introduced - doping -implant)
• Interconnections are OmadeE S . I
with Nmetal
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• Insulation used
used. New materials being investigated (low-k
dielectrics)

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Fabrication Technology
• nMOS Fabrication
• CMOS Fabrication
– p-well process
– n-well process ES . I N
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– twin-tub process

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Fabrication Technology
• All the devices on the wafer are made at the same time
• After the circuitry has been placed on the chip
– the chip is overglassed (with a passivation layer) to protect it
– only those areas which connect to the outside world will be left uncovered
(the pads)
The wafer finally passes to a test station E S . I N

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chip K T
test probes send test signal patterns to the chip and monitor the output of the

• The yield of a process is the percentage of die which pass this testing
• The wafer is then scribed and separated up into the individual chips. These
are then packaged
• Chips are ‘binned’ according to their performance

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CMOS Technology
• First proposed in the 1960s. Was not seriously considered until the severe
limitations in power density and dissipation occurred in NMOS circuits
• Now the dominant technology in IC manufacturing
• Employs both pMOS and nMOS transistors to form logic elements
The advantage of CMOS is that its logic elements draw significant current

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between transitions - hence power is conserved.
In the case of an inverter, in either logic state one of the transistors is off.
Since the transistors are in series, (~ no) current flows.
• See twin-well cross sections

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