Overall Project Objective:

Idongesit Ebong (1-1)Jenna Fu (1-2)

Bowei Gai (1-3)Syed Hussain (1-4)Jonathan Lee (1-5)

Design Manager: Myron Kwai

Overall Project Objective:Design a chip as part of a system that accommodates the growing demand for radio frequency identification (RFID)

technology while creating a quicker, more convenient shopping experience.

Presentation #9:

Smart Cart 525

Stage IX: 16 Mar. 2005Chip Level Layout

Status Design Proposal

Project chosen Verilog obtained/modified

Architecture Proposal Behavioral Verilog simulated

Size estimates/floorplanning Gate-level implementation simulated in Verilog Floorplan and more accurate transistor count

Schematic Design Component Layout Functional Block Layout

DRC of functional blocks LVS of functional blocks

Chip Level Layout (98.56% Done) 3 Main blocks (each block LVSes) Full chip LVS

Simulations

Design Decisions

Decided to route more wires over the SBOX and use metal 4 to reach registers on the right

Move items in the encryption block higher up and redesign SBOX logic

Previously…

Currently (320.220x293.355)

Updated Transistor Count

Old New

Encryption 13,054 13,904

Multiplier 2042 2126

Adder 544 600

SRAM 2276 2276

Logic 400 594

Registers (inputs/outputs) 2540 2540

Total 20,856 22,040

Updated Floorplan

Area: Old (μm2) New (μm2)

Encryption 68,352 60,983

Multiplier 8856 8420

Adder 3920 3429

SRAM 10,695 8183

Logic/Wiring 14,655 14,655

Registers (inputs/outputs, counters)

4490 4266

Total 110,968 91,365

Density: (transistors/μm2)

Aspect ratio:.191.36

0.261.1

Layer MasksPoly

Layer MasksMetal1

Layer MasksMetal2

Layer MasksMetal3

Layer MasksMetal4

Layout: Multiplier

Layout: SRAM/Adder

Layout: FinalText/Initial Permutation

Layout: Mix Column/Rcon

Layout: Key Expand

Layout: SBOX

Problems & Questions

Registers problematic How can we make the chip smaller? Re-doing many of the blocks, learn from previous

mistakes. Reset signal strength and buffer size needed for

it. White space reduction Simulations take a long time.