ASIC Design Flow

TS. Hoang Trang

ThS. Pham Dang Lam

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Cell Base Design Flow

Support Tools
(Languages)

Design flow

<file>.docx/xls/ppt

Specifications
System Level
Design
RTL Design
NG

Output

NG

SystemC (C++ with

Sysem C class)

Flatform / Model

VI, NotePath++
(Verilog/VHDL)

<file>.v

VCS/ModelSim,
etc(Verilog/ VHDL)

RTL Verification

Report file,
wave form

DC compiler

<file>.v (netlist),
<file>.sdf,
Reports

Netlist Verification

Formality

Report file

DFT

FastScan/Tmax/

Report file, Netlist

Prime Time

Report file, Netlist

ICC compiler

<file>.gds

Synthesis

Front
End

NG

STA

Place&Route

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Back
End

Cell Base Design Flow

Design flow

Support Tools
(Languages)

Output

<file>.docx/xls/ppt

Specifications

Design the one bit adder:

+ Three inputs (A, B, Cin)
+ Two output (S, Cout)

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How to start specification ?

Specifications

DSP

Data

Core
IPs

Bus
Control

Interface

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DSP

Data

Core
IPs

Bus
Control

Interface

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DSP

Data

Core
IPs

Bus
Control

Interface

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DSP

Data

Core
IPs

Bus
Control

Interface

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DSP

Data

Core
IPs

Bus
Control

Interface

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Controller

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Cell Base Design Flow

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Cell Base Design Flow

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DataPath
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Specifications

ALU - Controller
Sel_1

Sel_2

Sel_6

W
K

ALU - Data Path

f

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Specifications

Network-On-Chip (NoC) has been proposed as replacing

traditional bus architectures to solve complexity issues
such as synchronous frequency, infrastructure
interconnect and connective protocols when integrating
hundreds IP core or systems

http://www.design-reuse.com/articles/10496/a-comparison-of-network-on-chip-and-busses.html

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Header
flit
Body flit

BW

Specifications

RC

VA

SA

ST

LT

BW

RC

VA

SA

ST

LT

BW: Buffer write

RC: Router computation
VA: Virtual allocation
SA: Switch allocation
ST: Switch traversal
LT : Link traversal
Amit Kumar Li-Shiuan Peh, Parth Kundu, Niraij K.Jha, Toward Ideal On-Chip
Communication Using Express Virtual Channels, micr-28-01-kuma.3d.IEEE 2008,
Princeton University.

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NORTH
WEST

EAST

IP
SOUTH

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DataPath

Specifications

Controller

http://www.design-reuse.com/articles/10496/a-comparison-of-network-on-chip-and-busses.html

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DataPath

Specifications

Controller

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DataPath

Specifications

Controller

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Specifications

How to model a behavior of one traffic light ?

Red
Green : 30 s
Green Yellow : 27s
Yellow Red
:3s

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How to model a behavior of traffic light system?

Red
Green : 30 s
Green Yellow : 27s
Yellow Red
:3s

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ASSIGNMENT
Try to detail one of design in hardware
structure
Note that use many graphic and true table
instead of using behavior sentences

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 Pipeline Concept
Pipe line not using state machine

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CPU & Proccessing

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Proccessing

IFetch

Reg/Dec

Exec

Mem

Wr

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Pileline Process

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Hazard &Solution

Structure Hazard

Data Hazard

Control Hazard

33

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Structure Hazard

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Structure Hazard

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Structure Hazard

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Structure Hazard

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Structure Hazard

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Structure Hazard

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Hazard &Solution

Structure Hazard

Data Hazard

Control Hazard

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Data Hazard

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Data Hazard

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Data Hazard

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Hazard &Solution

Structure Hazard

Data Hazard

Control Hazard

44

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Control Hazard

Jump

Jump for condition

Others

45

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Control Hazard

Using Noop

Moving the jump points to the other

places

Guessing

46

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Control Hazard

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Control Hazard

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Solution

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State Machine - Pipeline

Specifications

Write Mem

DataPath

Write Mem

GCU

Write Mem

GCU

Unit 02

Unit 01
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Viterbi

Unit 03
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Thc Hin Ti
C Ch ng
ng

Write Mem

GCU

c T - Viterbi

Viterbi

Tun T

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Thc Hin Ti
Write Mem

GCU

Viterbi

Tun T
V

C Ch ng
ng

c T - Viterbi

ng ng

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Thc Hin Ti
Write Mem

GCU

Viterbi

Tun T
V

C Ch ng
ng

c T - Viterbi

ng ng
Write Mem

Write Mem

GCU

Write Mem

GCU

Viterbi

Write Mem

GCU

Viterbi

GCU

Viterbi

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Thc Hin Ti
C Ch ng
ng

Write Mem

GCU

c T - Viterbi

Viterbi

Tun T
V

ng ng

State 1

Write Mem

State 2

Write Mem

GCU

State 3

Write Mem

GCU

Viterbi

State 3

Write Mem

GCU

Viterbi

GCU

Viterbi

State 4
State 5
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Thc Hin Ti
C Ch ng
ng

Write Mem

GCU

c T - Viterbi

Viterbi

Tun T
V

ng ng

State 1

Write Mem

State 2

Write Mem

GCU

State 3

Write Mem

GCU

Viterbi

State 3

Write Mem

GCU

Viterbi

GCU

Viterbi

Loop

State 4
State 5
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State Machine - Pipeline

X cycles

Y cycles

Specifications

Z Cycles

Cycle Delay = max {X, Y, Z}

Cnt = cnt + 1 cnt == cycle_delay state_ena = 1
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Handshake- Pipeline
Write Mem

Viterbi

GCU

Notify

Confirm/Finish

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Handshake- Pipeline
Notify
Confirm/Finish

How to cat the notify and confirm Prototype ?

Many to solve notify tasks ?
How to control and store the output data ?
How to improve the design ?

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