VLSI DESIGN

PART- A: BASICS OF THE COURSE

UNIT –I: Introduction to IC Technology (10)

Introduction,. Introduction to fabrication of IC , Process flow for fabrication

of MOSFET, MOSFET structure and types of MOSFET

UNIT –II: Basic Electrical Properties (12)

Basic Electrical Properties of MOS , Current voltage characteristics , MOS

transistor threshold Voltage , Transfer characteristics and basic equations,
Short channel effects and second order effects, Types of device scaling,
Types of device scaling, Source Drain Resistance

UNIT –III: CMOS Inverter (15)

Basic idea of CMOS Inverter, Switch model of Inverter, Voltage transfer

characteristics, Noise Margin and Gain calculation, Propogation delay,
Inverter capacitances, Optimum NMOS-PMOS ratio, Dynamic Power
Dissipation, Static power dissipation, Power consumption in CMOS.

Low power Design, Transistor sizing for power minimization

UNIT –IV: Introduction to Mentor graphics/Microwind Tools (10)

Introduction to Software tool, different panels and blocks, demonstration of

basic design of CMOS Inverterantenna, various parameters analysis,.

UNIT –V: Combinational Logic Design (15)

Introduction , Static and Dynamic Logic Design, Complementary Logic, Two

input NAND gate realization, Realization of some basic functions using
complementary Logic Design, Static properties of complementary CMOS
gates, Propogation delay of complementary CMOS gates, Issues of
complementary CMOS gates, Design techniques of Large Fan – In, Signal
integrity issues in Dynamic Design, Domino Logic.

DESIGN WITH TOOLS: Hands-on Session (20)

PART-B:

Sequential Logic Design: (20)

Introduction.Timing metrics for sequential circuits,Classification of memory

elements,static Latches and Registers.

Synchronous approach,Asynchronous approach.

HANDS-ON SESSIONS (20)

1. Research papers searching/project selection

2. Design with Tools

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Essentials of VLSI circuits and systems – Kamran Eshraghian, Eshraghian

Dougles and A. Pucknell, PHI, 2005 Edition
2. CMOS VLSI Design – A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Neil H. E Weste,
David Harris, Ayan Banerjee, 3rd Ed, Pearson, 2009

References:

3. CMOS logic circuit Design – John .P. Uyemura, Springer, 2007.

4. Modern VLSI Design – Wayne Wolf, Pearson Education, 3rd Edition, 1997