Syllabus

MEC603 VLSI DESIGN
Introduction to CMOS circuits, MOS Transistor, CMOS Logic The inverter, combination logic, The NAND and NOR Gates, Compound gates, Multiplexers, Memory Latches and Registers, Circuit and Systems representation and examples Behavioural, Structural and Physical representation
Review of MOS Transistor Theory nMOS and pMOS Enhancement transistor, Threshold voltage equations, Body effects, MOS device Design equations, Basic DC equations, second order effects, MOS Models, Complementary CMOS inverter DC Charac­teristics, Noise margin, Static load MOS Inverters, Differ­ential Inverter, the transmission gate, Tristate Inverter, BiCMOS Inverters, SPICE Model
CMOS Processing Technology Basic CMOS technology, n and p well processes, CMOS Process Enhancements, Layout design rules, Technology related CAD issues
Circuit Characterization and performance Estimation, Resist­ance and capacitance estimation, Inductance m switching characteristics analytical, empirical delay models, gate delays, CMOS Gate transistor sizing, Power dissipation, Sizing routing conductors, Charge sharing, Yield, reliabili­ty, Scaling of MOS Transistor dimensions
CMOS Circuit and Logic design CMOS logic gate design, Basic Physical design of simple logic gates, CMOS logic struc­tures, Clocking strategies, I/O structures, Lowpower design.
Systems design and Design methods Design strategies, CMOS Chip design options, Design methods, Design capture tools, Design verification tools, design economics
CMOS testing, Need for testing, Manufacturing test princi­ples, design strategies for test, chip level test tech­niques, system level test techniques, Layout design for improved testability
CMOS subsystem design datapath operations, Memory elements, Control FSM design, PLA ROM control implementation, Multile­vel logic.
Theory of logical effort: Method of logical effort, calculation of logical effort of gates, asymmetric logic gates, forks of amplifiers, wide structures.

REFERENCE BOOKS
Jan M Rabaey, Digital integrated circuits: a design perspective, 2nd edition Pearson Education

Neil Weste, Kamran Eshrghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI design: a systems perspective, 2nd ed., Addison Wesley Publishing company, 1993.
Sung-Mo Kang and Y. Leblebici, CMOS digital Integrated Circuits.
Ivan Sutherland. Logical effort, Morgan Kaufeman, CA.