Courseware Development for VLSI Design Education

Kazuyuki Saito,

Professor, Computer Devices Laboratory

We had developed two textbooks for VLSI design education, and used in the lectures and the exercises of 'VLSI-I'.

The developed textbooks are:

• 'MOS VLSI Process Design' by K. Saito, which includes: History of VLSI technology, Specific features of VLSI technology, MOSLSI design & circuit technologies, Fundamental devices for MOSLSI, MOSLSI process technologies, VLSI manufacturing technologies, Reliability problems in MOSLSI, and Quality control technologies.
• 'Design of VLSI - Exercise Guide for Design and Evaluation of CMOS Circuits and Devices' by k. Saito, Y. Hisada, K. Kuroda, and T. Iizuka, which includes: Introduction, Design rule and layout, CMOS process design using VLSI topography simulator; PARADISE, Characteristics of MOS devices, MOS device design using process & device simulator; VEGA, Dynamic characteristics of MOS integrated circuits, and Circuit analyses using Spice.