Let's Program the Transistors
1. Start Electric: You will see the following window. 2. Towards the bottom of the window, you will find an Electric Messages Window where you can find different messages throughout any design. 3. You can change the background color of the window as follows Window –> Color Schemes –> White Background Colors 4. First of all we…
Installation Steps: Download and save electric-9.07.jar Click here to download electric-9.07 Download the Electric Source Release (26 MB) Create the folder $PATH/Electric and save the file electric-9.07.jar in it Note: It is up to you where you want to keep the electric jar file. But I would advise to create a folder name Electric and open the electric…
The main steps in ASIC physical design flow are: These steps are just the basic. A more detailed design flow is presented in the picture below: The ASIC physical design flow uses the technology libraries that are provided by the fabrication houses. Technologies are commonly classified on the basis of minimal feature size. The basic…
Following list updates the deadlines of the conferences in the domain of VLSI and Computer Architecture to be held in India for the year 2018-19. You can find the list of conferences by clicking here. 32nd International Conference on VLSI Design & 18th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID – 2019) Date of Conference: TBA Place of…
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The following list contains the VLSI and Computer Architecture conferences which are held in India every year. The table holds the list of conferences which is at least 3 years old. This list is meant to hold the conferences whose major tracks are either one or multiple of the following categories: Device – Circuit Interactions…
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In the part-1 of ESD we learnt through of ESD testing and its importance. ICs are susceptible to ESD event as they consist of components that are very sensitive to excess current and voltage. ESD even can occur at any point in time during IC assembly and packaging, part handling or system assembly. Important point…
Electro Static Discharge (ESD) is sudden flow of static electricity between two electrically charged objects for a very short duration of time. The study of ESD phenomenon and its protection circuits are more relevant with each technology nodes as smaller devices are more vulnerable. Electric Over-Stress (EOS) is also one by-product of ESD which also…
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We have learnt the following definitions of Reliability and Availability from the Fault Tolerance Measures post: Reliability, R(t): Probability that the system has been up continuously during the whole interval [0,t], given it was up at time 0. This measure is suitable for applications in which even a momentary disruption can prove costly. One example is computer…
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Whenever you want to add something to the kernel code, there are two options – either add your code to the kernel code and compile/build the entire kernel image or compile your code separately and add it to the kernel image later. The first one is the earlier approach that was followed. But, considering the…
To interact with the hardware, driver needs to communicate with the kernel and before that, it must notify the kernel about its presence. This is achieved by the “init” call by which the driver is registered with the kernel and allocated the memory it wants. At the time of system shut down, the driver is…