1.4. VLSI design    



The use of graphics to design Very Large Scale Integration

devices - microprocessors, memories, etc. Application programs are used

to interactively build and check semiconductor circuits.

This can save time as simulations can be done using the database of

graphics information. The circuit being put into silicon can be tested

before it is even built!

The same database can then drive the fabrication process.


     
VLSI Design (46K bytes).

    
               Fig. 1.5 : VLSI Design (46K bytes).
The above image comes from the VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) lab which provides hardware and software facilities for VLSI teaching and research in the faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University, as well as coordination with the activities of the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC).