Proceedings of the 22nd Academic Council of VIT [8.4.

2011]

Course code VLSI DESIGN LTPC

EIE 301 3024
Version No.
Course EEE116
Prerequisites
Objectives: • To provide an understanding of the basic CMOS technology and
circuit design principles and introduce architecture and design
concepts underlying modern complex VLSI.
• To provide students with the background needed to design, develop,
and test digital circuits using IEEE standard VHSIC Hardware
Description Language(VHDL) and Verilog HDL.

Expected • After completion of this course the students will be familiar with
Outcome: modern VLSI circuits and will be able to design most of the circuits.

UNIT I IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES 9 Hours

VLSI Design Flow,Full custom and Semi custom design, Standard cell
design and cell libraries, FPGA building block architectures, FPGA
interconnect routing procedures

UNIT II MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLE 9 Hours

NMOS and PMOS transistors, Process parameters for MOS and CMOS,
Electrical properties of CMOS circuits and device modeling, Scaling
principles and fundamental limits, CMOS inverter scaling, propagation
delays, Stick diagram, Layout diagrams

UNIT III COMBINATIONAL LOGIC 9 Hours

CIRCUITS
Examples of Combinational Logic Design, Elmore’s constant, Pass
transistor Logic, Transmission gates, static and dynamic CMOS design,
Power dissipation – Low power design principles.

UNIT IV SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS 9 Hours

Static and Dynamic Latches and Registers, Timing issues, pipelines, clock
strategies, Memory architecture and memory control circuits, Low power
memory circuits, Synchronous and Asynchronous design.

UNIT V DESIGNING ARITHEMETIC 9 Hours

BUILDING BLOCKS
Data path circuits, Architectures for ripple carry adders, carry look ahead
adders, High speed adders, accumulators, Multipliers, dividers, Barrel
shifters, speed and area tradeoff.

Text Books 1. Jan Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, B.Nikolic, “Digital Integrated

circuits: A design perspective”. Second Edition, Prentice Hall of India,
2003.

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2. M.J. Smith, “Application specific integrated circuits”, Addisson

Wesley, 1997

References 1. N.Weste, K.Eshraghian, “Principles of CMOS VLSI DESIGN”,

second edition, Addision Wesley 1993
2. R.Jacob Baker, Harry W.LI., David E.Boyee, “CMOS Circuit Design,
Layout and Simulation”, 2005 Prentice Hall of India
3. A.Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian, “BASIC VLSI DESIGN”, Third
edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2007.

Mode of CAT- I & II , Quizzes , Assignments/Seminar/Class tests, Term End

Evaluation Examination

Recommended by
the Board of
Studies on
Date of Approval
by the Academic
Council

VLSI DESIGN LAB

FPGA Based experiments

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