ASICs... the website

This website is about ASICs or Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, which are a type of silicon integrated circuit.

Michael John Sebastian Smith

Contents

• Introduction to ASICs... the website
• Acknowledgements
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs... the book)
• ASICs... the courses
• ASICs... the book  (HTML)
• ASICs... the book  at DACafe
• ASICs... the book  in Adobe Acrobat
• ASICs... the figures
• ASICs... the code
• Commercial software for ASICs... the book
• No-cost software for ASICs... the book
• Addison Wesley Longman (AWL)
• How to get ASICs... the book
• ASICs... the answers
• ASICs... more problems
• ASICs... the resources
• ASICs... the lectures
• VHDL and ASICs... the book
• Verilog HDL and ASICs... the book
• Style sheets for ASICs... the book
• Checking ASICs... the book
• Errors in ASICs... the book

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Introduction to ASICs... the website

ASICs... the website is a project in computer-assisted education for integrated-circuit design.

• ASICs... the website grew from a book: Application-Specific Integrated Circuits or ASICs... the book.
• ASICs... the website now spans several thousand web pages and occupies several gigabytes of disk space.
• ASICs... the websiteis large enough that you will probably need a copy of ASICs... the book in order to find your way around.
• ASICs...the websitehas a plain look for two reasons: It is faster for students to access by modem from home and it is easy to project these pages for use in class by increasing the default font type and size.
• ASICs...the websiteis a research project not a commercial product and some pages use advanced features that not all browsers support.

Acknowledgements

ASICs... the book was supported in part by a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation as well as by Compass Design Automation (now part of Avant!). See the preface to ASICs... the book. for a complete list of acknowledgements.

ASICs...the website is supported by Sun Microsystems, DACafe, Xilinx, and Avant! with additional donations of hardware and software from Cadence, Xilinx, and Altera.

We have partnered with DACafe to explore new uses of ASICs... the website. As a first step, we have moved ASICs... the book (HTML) to DACafe, forming ASICs... the book at DACafe.

Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
(ASICs... the book)

Michael John Sebastian Smith
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
VLSI Design Series
1040 pages
ISBN 0-201-50022-1
June 1997

The cover of ASICs... the book showing a Viterbi-decoder ASIC used as a design example (84k)

Requests for permission to use material from ASICs... the book should be directed to Helen Goldstein atAddison Wesley Longman, 1 Jacob Way, Reading, MA 01867, helen.goldstein@awl.com (+1) 617-944-3700. So far AWL has willingly granted all requests. It is a painless process involving an exchange of email.

ASICs... the courses (HTML and PDF)

• ASICs... in a week or semester. A set of notes intended for use with either a week-long intensive course or in a 13-week semester university course (about 40 instruction hours in total). Includes both HTML and PDF.
• ASICs... the industry course. A four-day intensive industrial course in ASIC design (Cambridge, UK, May 12-15, 1998; Davos, Switzerland, April 12-15, 1999; Nice, France, February 21-24, 2000 ) organized by CEI (Europe)
• ASICs... in a day. A one-day course on ASICs, part of a week-long course on Advanced Digital Design at EPFL Lausanne (August 24-28, 1998; 23-27 August 1999)

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ASICs... the book (HTML)

These are local copies (to this website) for development of ASICs... the book at DACafe.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to ASICs
• Chapter 2: CMOS Logic
• Chapter 3: ASIC Library Design
• Chapter 4: Programmable ASICs
• Chapter 5: Programmable ASIC Logic Cells
• Chapter 6: Programmable ASIC I/O Cells
• Chapter 7: Programmable ASIC Interconnect
• Chapter 8: Programmable ASIC Design Software
• Chapter 9: Low-Level Design Entry
• Chapter 10: VHDL (the links to the IEEE VHDL LRM are protected)
• Chapter 11: Verilog HDL
• Chapter 12: Logic Synthesis
• Chapter 13: Simulation
• Chapter 14: Test
• Chapter 15: System Partitioning
• Chapter 16: Floorplanning and Placement
• Chapter 17: Routing
• Appendix A: VHDL Resources (the complex style sheets used in these files will work with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, but not very well with Netscape 4.0 or earlier versions of either browser)
• Appendix B: Verilog HDL Resources

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ASICs... the book at DACafe

Read about our work with DACafe, how ASICs... the website at DACafe is generated, some statistics, patterns of use, and top 10 visitors.

The following links take you to DACafe (the style sheets used in these files work well with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, are satisfactory with Netscape 4.0, but do not work very well with earlier browser versions).

• Chapter 1: Introduction to ASICs
• Chapter 2: CMOS Logic
• Chapter 3: ASIC Library Design
• Chapter 4: Programmable ASICs
• Chapter 5: Programmable ASIC Logic Cells
• Chapter 6: Programmable ASIC I/O Cells
• Chapter 7: Programmable ASIC Interconnect
• Chapter 8: Programmable ASIC Design Software
• Chapter 9: Low-Level Design Entry
• Chapter 10: VHDL (the links to the IEEE VHDL LRM are protected)
• Chapter 11: Verilog HDL
• Chapter 12: Logic Synthesis
• Chapter 13: Simulation
• Chapter 14: Test
• Chapter 15: System Partitioning
• Chapter 16: Floorplanning and Placement
• Chapter 17: Routing
• Appendix A: VHDL Resources (the complex style sheets used in these files will work with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, but not very well with Netscape 4.0 or earlier versions of either browser)
• Appendix B: Verilog HDL Resources

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ASICs... the book in Adobe Acrobat format

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