Explained How Chips Are Designed

From chip schematic, through libraries, chip layout, packaging, simulation and more. Explained by Joren Vaes. Thank you Joren.

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Chapters:
00:00 What is this video about
00:45 Difference between analogue and digital chip design
05:49 Schematic of a chip, libraries, PDK
09:16 Simulation of a chip
12:16 Software used to design a chip
15:35 Price: How much does it cost to manufacture a custom chip
17:12 How to learn chip design
19:03 Doing layout of a chip
22:37 Parasitic extraction
24:11 Design rules
28:29 Layers in chip design
29:47 NMOS / PMOS transistor
39:58 Package design for a chip
46:26 Nanometers technologies - what does it mean?
48:17 What is FinFET and why it exists?
53:58 How many people design a chip?
56:36 Joren's chip
1:02:52 Why to design ASIC
1:06:39 CMOS vs Bipolar
1:10:47 Making resistors in a chip
1:14:05 Making capacitors in a chip
1:14:49 Thickness of metal layers
1:18:04 Parameters of a transistor
1:22:07 THz chip example
1:27:29 Making perfect chips from imperfect components
1:32:56 ESD protection in chips

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[aryanmakhdumi]

My mind has just blowed off. As an electrical engineer who worked on electronics for 10 years, after watching this video, I felt like there are still a lot of things to discover in this field. I never feel like I'm boared with routines. This was such a wonderful informative interview. I really enjoyed watching. Thank you a lot. Your video should be taught as one or two lectures for fresh grads or undergrads who pursue a study path in electronics.

[AbdennacerAyeb]

These type of long videos are awesomes.
You explain many things at once.
Thank you, keep forward.

[aaaa-tegn]

Hi, I'm a bs electronic student . thanks a lot for these videos. I learned more stuff in one simple video than 4 years of Studying

[AMDevanney]

Wow! What a journey. That was super interesting and inspiring. There are open source tools like Electic VLSI, Magic and Klayout that work with the Skywater PDK.

[KarthikArumugham]

Absolutely astonishing! It's hard to fathom the amount of technology packed into such a small chip. A big thank you to Joren and Robert for guiding us through the chip design process. I'm truly impressed by the advancement and variety of software available for designing and simulating these chips so precisely. I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge from just this one video.

[Florinup]

Sometimes I think this world is unfair.. some people are starting wars or watching stupid useless videos using tech created by very bright minds. Something must be really wrong. I can't imagine how far humanity would have been if everyone would had focused on science.

Thanks for the video !

[miguelangellopezdibenedett]

I really enjoy this type of content. This is the only channel where I can find such a deep level of explanation. Thank you. In future videos, I would love to learn more about the guest's CV if possible.

[smpsmp]

I am from Eastern Europe in year 2001. I went to IT high school because I wanted to learn everything about computers, we didn't have youtube than, and just dial up. After a while I understood that basically nothing useful I would learn there, just waist of time, by chance I went to uni for some special class and there was some beowulf system which they used to design some basic IC and other stuff this was moment when I have decided to don't go that route but I got what I wanted . Nowadays you can see that in few videos online amazing!

[SavageThrone]

Wow almost 2 hours and I have no idea what they are talking about. I wish I understood but I don't maybe like .0001% but crazy how smart these guys are.

[vladomaimun]

Absolutely superb. Thank you Robert and thank you Joren.

[pooyamz]

Very very valuable video. It showed me lots of insights.
Thank you Robert and Vaes

[Jeremy-flxt]

This is amazing content! This answered a lot of questions I had, but didn't have the vocabulary to search for (e.g. "dummy").
I know you already have some content on ESD, but looking at Physical Analysis of ESD failures could be really interesting & useful. Scanning Electron Microscope images aren't uncommon, but there are some exotic techniques like Photon Emission Microscopy, and Optical Beam Induced Resistance CHange (OBIRCH) which are interesting in their capabilities and sometimes also give insight about how things work on a different level.

[irpheus]

Hi Robert, first a thank you very much for all the videos you have made particularly about PCB design & layout. They have taught me so much valuable information which I use on an everyday basis when I layout PCBs! And then, since I cannot see how to contact you (I may of course have missed this information), I will allow myself a slightly off topic comment here with two suggestions for additional PCB layout related topics. The first suggested topic is how GND connected vias lining a PCB microstrip changes the trace's impedance as a function of via spacing and distance to the trace? The second is how component pin distance from the GND plane increases the EMR from these pins/components? I.e. is there a significant difference between the EMR from e.g. an SOIC component and a component where the pins are placed below the component (e.g. a UQFN package)? Hope you may find these topics to be interesting - & again many thanks for making these videos! Cheers, Jesper

[campbellmorrison]

Wow Im loving this, so far from anything I could ever get involved with but its so interesting to get an understanding of what is involved by talking to people I would never have access too.

[codebeat]

Something I always wanted to know, great talk! Joren looks like Steve Jobs in his early days. Now it is clear to me why there are so less bugs in chips because any fault can cost the company thousands/millions or even billion of dollars. You cannot provide an update once it it is made. Remember the Intel Sandy Bridge fault. Imagine this process of design without the tools, in the 80s or in the sounds impossible to do but they did it! Nintendo for example, made custom chips for the Game & Watch series. Crazy if you think about it but they sold billions of devices so at the end they had their profit. Very interesting, nice video! Thanks for sharing!

[cribrium]

Awesome job ! Thank you Joren for your presentation. Thank you Robert for your work too. This is a very valuable work, I love this kind of video I learn a lot !

[mirec]

Nice talk!! We also design mmWave chips at the Technical University of Košice.

[bayenneb]

He is from KULeuven, my uni, glad to see some talent from there showing up on your channel. Perhaps you can find some interesting people from Imec as well

[nicoladellino]

Impressive video, THX Joren and Robert.

[lbgstzockt]

This was a fascinating deep dive itno a super interesting world, thanks for sharing.