Custom MOS VLSI design

Increasingly, experimenters are finding that custom integrated circuits offer uniquely powerful and efficient data acquisition and processing solutions. High density, low power, ease of design, wide foundry availability and low cost are some of the advantages of the CMOS technology. Comprehensive, high quality public domain computer aided VLSI design software is available to run on a variety of common workstations. The MOSIS prototype fabrication system is discussed. Three example designs are presented in varying detail. The first is a simple full custom digital circuit, the second is a semi custom digital circuit designed using a silicon compiler, and the third is a small full custom analog circuit.