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Department of Electronics and Communication
Engineering
Dr. R Arun Sekar
Course Title: VLSI Design
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Scaling
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scaling is essential.
• VLSI fabrication technology is still in the
process of evolution which is leading to
smaller line widths and feature size and to
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higher packing density of circuitry on a
chip.
• The scaling down of feature size generally
leads to improved performance and it is
important therefore to understand the
effects of scaling. 2
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characterized in terms of several
indicators, or figures of merit. Commonly,
the following are used:
• Minimum feature size
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• Number of gates on one chip
• Power dissipation
• Maximum operational frequency .
• Die size
• Production cost.
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• Many of these figures of merit can be
improved by
• shrinking the dimensions of transistors,
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• interconnections and
• the separation between features,
• and by adjusting the doping levels and
supply voltages.
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• The most commonly used models are the
constant electric field scaling model and
the constant voltage scaling model.
• Recently, a combined voltage and
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dimension scaling model has been
presented.
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