INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

NAME OF DEPT./CENTRE: Electronics and Computer Engineering

1. Subject Code: EC – 544N Course Title: Digital VLSI Circuit Design

2. Contact Hours: L: 3 T: 0 P: 0

3. Examination Duration (Hrs.): Theory 0 3 Practical 0 0

4. Relative Weight: CWS 15

1 PRS 00 MTE 35 ETE 50 PRE 00

5. Credits: 0 3 6. Semester 
Autumn Spring Both

7. Pre-requisite: EC-203 and EC-242 or equivalent

8. Subject Area: DEC

9. Objective: To provide a thorough knowledge of digital VLSI circuit design - from inverter to
memory - at various levels of abstraction.

10. Details of the Course:

Sl. Contents Contact

No. Hours
1. Review: Basic MOS structure and its static behaviour; Quality metrics of a 2
digital design: Cost, functionality, robustness, power, and delay.
2. CMOS Inverter: Static CMOS inverter, switching threshold and noise margin 6
concepts and their evaluation, dynamic behaviour, power consumption and
effect of scaling on CMOS performance metrics.
3. CMOS Combinational Logic: Static CMOS design, ratioed logic, pass 7
transistor logic, dynamic logic, speed and power dissipation in dynamic logic,
cascading dynamic gates, CMOS transmission gate logic.
4. CMOS Sequential Logic: Static latches and registers, bistability principle, 7
MUX based latches, static SR flip-flops, master-slave edge-triggered register,
dynamic latches and registers, concept of pipelining, pulse registers,
nonbistable sequential circuit.
5. Timing Issues: Synchronous timing basics, classification, skew and jitter, and 7
their sources, clock distribution techniques, self-timed circuit design,
synchronisers and arbiters, clock synthesis and synchronization using PLL.
6. Design of Arithmetic Building Blocks: Adder, multiplier, shifter, and other 5
operators; Power and speed trade-off in datapath structures.
 7. Memory and Array Structure: Core, ROM, RAM, peripheral circuitry,
memory reliability and yield, SRAM and DRAM design, evaluation of RNM 8
and WNM from butterfly curves, flash memory.
Total 42

11. Suggested Books:

Sl. Name of Books / Authors Year of

No. Publication
1. Rabaey, J.M., Chandrakasan, A. and Nikolic, B., “Digital Integrated 2006
Circuits: A Design Perspective”, 2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall of India.
2. Kang, S. and Leblebici, Y., “CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, 2003
Analysis and Design”, 3rd Ed., Tata McGraw-Hill.
3. Pucknell, D.A. and Eshraghian, K., “Basic VLSI Design”, 3rd Ed., 1994
Prentice-Hall of India.
4. Eshraghian, K., Pucknell, D.A. and Eshraghian, S., “Essentials of 2005
VLSI Circuit and System”, 2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall of India.
5. Hodges, D.A., Jackson, H.G. and Saleh, R.A., “Analysis and Design of 2005
Digital Integrated Circuits in Deep Submicron Technology”, 3rd Ed.,
Tata McGraw-Hill.
6. Uyemera, P.J., “Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems”, 4th Ed., 2003
John Wiley & Sons.