EC4201Syllabus

EC4201 VLSI DESIGN

Module – 1:  

Circuits and System Representation: Behavioral, structural and physical representation, example of a triangular waveform generator and its behavioural, structural and physical description

Text Book:

Principle of CMOS VLSI Design A System Perspective, Weste Neil H. E.  & Eshraghian K., Pearson Education, 1993.

Module – 2:

Basic CMOS Technology: Basic n-well CMOS Process, p-well process, twin-tub process, silicon on insulator, CMOS process enhancements, metal interconnect, polysilicon / refractory metal interconnect, local interconnect, circuit elements like resistors, capacitors, EAROM, bipolar transistors and thin film transistor.

Text Book:

Principle of CMOS VLSI Design A System Perspective, Weste Neil H. E. & Eshraghian K., Pearson Education, 1993.

Module – 3:  

Layout Design Rules: Layer representations, CMOS n-well rules, design rule backgrounder, layer assignment, latch-up problem, latch-up triggering, internal latch-up prevention techniques, resistance estimation, and capacitance estimation.

Text Book:

Principle of CMOS VLSI Design A System Perspective, Weste Neil H. E. & Eshraghian K., Pearson Education, 1993.

Module – 4:  

Basic Physical Design of Simple Logic Gates: Inverter, NAND and NOR gates, complex logic gates layout, CMOS standard cell design, gate array layout, sea-of-gates layout, general CMOS logic gate layout guidelines, layout optimisation for performance, transmission gate layout consideration, 2-input multiplexers, I/O structures, VDD and VSS pads, output & input pads, tri-state and bi-directional pads, miscellaneous pads.

Text Book:

Principle of CMOS VLSI Design A System Perspective, Weste Neil H. E.  & Eshraghian K., Pearson Education, 1993.

Module – 5:  

CMOS Analogue Design Method: CMOS saturation and linear region operation, Opamp design, opamp as a comparator, sample and hold, analogue layout considerations, transistor layouts, centroid design, capacitor matching, resistor layout, noise consideration.

Text Book:   

Analog Integrated Circuits Deisgn, David Johns & Ken Martin, John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

Module – 6:  

CMOS Digital Design Methods: Structured design strategies, hierarchy, regularity, modularity, locality, design options like PL, re-programmable gate arrays, Standard Cell design, behavioural synthesis, RTL synthesis, logic optimisation, structural to layout synthesis, placement, routing

Text Book:

Principle of CMOS VLSI Design, A System Perspective, Weste Neil H. E. & Eshraghian K., Pearson Education, 1993.

Module – 7:  

CMOS Subsystem Design: Single bit adders, bit parallel adder, transmission gate adder, asynchronous counter, synchronous counter, RAM, finite state machines, multilevel logic.

Text Book:

Principle of CMOS VLSI Design A System Perspective, Weste Neil H. E.  & Eshraghian K., Pearson Education, 1993.