M.E.

in Electronics VLSI-Design (Detailed Curriculum Structure)

(Semester-1)
Course Name Course Code Credits LTP Lecture wise breakup : : : : DIGITAL VLSI DESIGN EC 516 4 400 No. of Lectures (4)

Physics and Modeling of MOSFETs Basic MOSFET Characteristics Threshold Voltage, Body Bias concept, Current-Voltage Characteristics Square-Law Model, MOSFET Modeling Drain-Source Resistance, MOSFET Capacitances, Geometric Scaling Theory Full-Voltage Scaling, Constant-Voltage Scaling. Fabrication and Layout of CMOS Integrated Circuits (7) Overview of Integrated Circuit, Processing Oxidation, Photolithography, Self-Aligned MOSFET, Isolation and Wells LOCOS, Trench Isolation, CMOS Process flow, Mask design and Layout MOSFET ,Dimensions, Design Rules, Latch-up.
(6) CMOS Inverter Basic Circuit and DC Operation DC Characteristics, Noise Margins, Layout considerations, Inverter Switching Characteristics Switching Intervals, High-to-Low time, Low-to-High time, Maximum Switching Frequency, Transient Effects on the VTC, RC Delay Modeling, Elmore Delay, Output Capacitance, Inverter Design DC Design, Transient Design, Driving Large Capacitive Loads. (3) Switching Properties of MOSFETs nMOSFET/ MOSFET Pass Transistors, Transmission Gate Characteristics, MOSFET Switch Logic, TGbased Switch Logic, D-type Flip-Flop. (7) Static CMOS Logic Elements Complex Logic Functions, CMOS NAND Gate, CMOS NOR Gate, Complex Logic Gates, Exclusive OR and Equivalence Gates, Adder Circuits, Pseudo-nMOS Logic Gates, Schmitt Trigger Circuits, SR and Dtype Latch, CMOS SRAM Cell, Tri-state Output Circuits. (6) Power Dissipation in CMOS Digital Circuits Dynamic Power Dissipation Switching Power, Dissipation, Short Circuit Power Dissipation, Glitching Power Dissipation, Static Power, Dissipation Diode Leakage Current, Sub-threshold Leakage Current. (6) Dynamic Logic Circuit Concepts and CMOS Dynamic Logic Families Charge Leakage, Charge Sharing, Dynamic RAM Cell, Bootstrapping, Clocked-CMOS, Pre- Charge/ Evaluate, Logic, Domino Logic, Multiple-Output Domino Logic, NORA Logic, Single-Phase Logic.

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(7) Effects of Technology Scaling on CMOS Logic Styles Trends and Limitations of CMOS, Technology Scaling MOSFET Scaling Trends, Challenges of MOSFET Scaling Short-Channel Effects, Sub-threshold Leakage Currents, Dielectric Breakdown, Hot Carrier effects, Soft Errors, Velocity Saturation and Mobility Degradation, DIBL, Scaling down dd/Vth ratio.

CMOS Differential Logic Styles Dual-Rail Logic, CVSL, CPL, DPL, DCVS, MCML

(4)

(6) Issues in Chip Design ESD Protection, On-Chip Interconnects Line Parasitics, Modeling of the Interconnect Line, Clock Distribution, Input-Output circuits. BOOKS:

1. Kang, S. and Leblebici, Y., CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis and Design, Tata McGraw Hill (2008) 3rd ed. 2. Weste, N.H.E. and Eshraghian, K., CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Addision Wesley (1998) 2nd ed. 3. Rabaey, J.M., Chandrakasen, A.P. and Nikolic, B., Digital Integrated Circuits A Design Perspective, Pearson Education (2007) 2nd ed. 4. aker, R.J., Lee, H. W. and Boyce, D. E., CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation, Wiley - IEEE Press (2004) 2nd ed. 5. Weste, N.H.E., Harris, D. and Banerjee, A., CMOS VLSI Design, Dorling Kindersley (2006) 3rd ed.

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Course Name

ADVANCED MATHEMATICS (Special

functions, Conformal mappings and Matrices) MA 501 4 400 No. of Lectures

Course Code Credits LTP Lecture wise breakup

: : :

SPECIAL FUNCTIONS

(28)

Series solution of differential equations, Power series methods, Legendres polynomial, generating functions, Recurrence relations, Frobenius method, Series solution of Bessels differential equation, Modified Bessels functions, generating functions, Recurrence relations Equations reducible to Bessels equation, Sturm Liouvilles problem, orthogonal functions, orthogonality of eigen functions, eigen function expansions Applications CONFORMAL MAPPINGS (10)

Conformal mapping, Exponential function, trigonometric function, logarithmic function, power function, bilinear and Schwarz-Christoffel transformation, Applications to engineering problems. MATRICES (18)

Matrices, Minimal polynomial of a matrix, Reduction of a matrix into Jordan canonical form Functions of square matrices, Sylvesters interpolation formula, Quadratic and Hermitian forms Linear vector matrix differential equations, Matrix Riccati equations BOOKS: 1. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Dennis G. Zill & Warren S. Wright, Jones & Bartlett, 4th Edition 2011. REFERENCES: 1. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Wylie and Barrett, Mc Graw Hill, 6th edition, 1995.
2. Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Kreyszig, John Wiley and Sons, 8th edition, 2001. 3. State space Analysis Of Control Systems, K Ogata, 1967, Prentice Hall Inc.

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Course Name Course Code Credits LTP Lecture wise breakup

: : : :

ELECTRONIC SYSTEM DESIGN

EC 511 4 400 No. of Lectures

DESIGN CONCEPTS Digital Hardware, Design Process, Design of Digital Hardware LOGIC CIRCUITS Variables & Functions Logic gates & Networks synthesis, SOP, POS forms, Introduction to VHDL.

(04)

(08)

OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATION OF LOGIC FUNCTIONS: (10) Strategy for minimization, Incompletely specified functions, Multiple output circuits, Multilevel synthesis & Analysis

COMBINATIONAL CIRCUITS Building Block, Multiplexers Decoders, Encoders Code Converters.

(05)

SYNCHRONOUS SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS Basic Design Steps, Mealy state Model, Design of FSM,

(08)

ASYNCHRONOUS SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS Analysis, Synthesis, State Reduction, State Assignment, Hazards.

(08)

DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN Building Block Circuits.

(05)

TESTING OF LOGIC CIRCUITS Fault Model, Path sensitizing, Random testing, Circuits with Tree Structure.

(08)

BOOKS:
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1.

Introduction to Logic Design MARCOVITZ (Text )

REFERENCES: 1. 2.
3.

Engineering Digital Design TINDER An Engineering Approach to Digital Design FLETCHER Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals MANO

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