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VLSI Engineering L-T-P-C

Introduction: Design hierarchy, layers of abstraction, integration density and Moores
law, VLSI design styles, packaging styles, design automation principles; Fabrication
Technology: Basic steps of fabrication, bipolar, CMOS and Bi-CMOS fabrication
processes, layout design rules; MOS and Bi-CMOS characteristics and circuits: MOS
transistor characteristics, MOS switch and inverter, Bi-CMOS inverter, latch-up in
CMOS inverter, super-buffers, propagation delay models, switching delay in logic
circuits, CMOS analog amplifier; Logic Design: switch logic, gate restoring logic,
various logic families and logic gates, PLA; Dynamic Circuits: Basic concept, noise
considerations, charge sharing, cascading dynamic gates, domino logic, np-CMOS
logic, clocking schemes; Sequential Circuits: Basic regenerative circuits, bistable
circuit elements, CMOS SR latch, clocked latch and flip-flops; Low-power Circuits:
low-power designthrough voltage scaling, estimation and optimization of switching
activity, reduction of switched capacitance, adiabatic logic circuits; Subsystem Design:
design of arithmetic building blocks like adders, multipliers, shifters, area-speed-power
tradeoff; Semiconductor Memories: SRAM, DRAM, non-volatile memories; Bipolar
ECL Inverter: Features of ECL gate, robustness and noise immunity, logic design in
ECL, single-ended and differential ECL gates; Testability of VLSI: Fault models, scan-
based techniques, BIST, test vector generation; Physical Design: Brief ideas on
partitioning, placement, routing and compaction.

Texts/References:
1. J.M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan and B. Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits- A Design
Perspective, 2/e, Prentice Hall of India, 2003.
2. N. Weste and D. Harris, CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective,
3/e, Pearson Education India, 2007.
3. D. A. Hodges, H. G. Jackson, R. Saleh, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated
Circuits in Deep submicron Technology, 3/e, McGraw Hill, 2004.
4. Kang and Leblevici, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis and Design, 3/e,
McGraw Hill, 2003.
5. J. P. Uyemura, Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems, John Wiley & Sons
(Asia), 2002.
6. W. Wolf, Modern VLSI Design - System on Chip design, 3/e, Pearson Education,
2004.