Stick Diagrams and Layout

Diagrams
 Layout diagrams
• physical representation of circuit design, or The Layout is a drawing of the masks
which will be used in the manufacturing process.

• Layout is drawing the masks used in the manufacturing process

 Stick diagrams
• Diagrammatic representation of a chip layout that helps to abstract a model. Stick
diagrams are used to convey the layer information.

• Capturing the topography and layer information using simple diagrams.

• Interface between symbolic circuit and actual layout.

• Does not show exact placement of components, transistor size, wire length or width.

• greatly simplify the initial step of layout creation.

Layout diagrams
 Alternate Layout of NOT Gate
Vp
Vp

X X

x x

X X

Gnd
x Gnd
x
 NAND2 Layout
Vp Vp

X X X
a.b

Gnd
a.b
a b
X X

a b
Gnd
Stick diagram-CMOS NAND