Click on the following links for course contents, lecture notes, assignments, and reference books.

Other useful reference materials include - video lectures of Prof. Shanti Pavan (here) and Prof. Nagendara Krishnapura (here) of IIT Madras

Click on the following links for course contents, lecture notes, assignments, and reference books.

Other useful reference materials for DIC design include - video lectures of Prof. Janakiraman (here) and Prof. Nitin Chandrachoodan (here) of IIT Madras.

Video lecture links for the following topics are provided inline. You can go through them for better understanding.

• Semiconductor memories - Memory and microprocessor from the computer
  + Introduction to semiconductor memories, types and their basic architecture - refer this video (0:00 - 11:45)
  + For basic SRAM cell and architecture (SRAM is the cache memory in the computer) - refer this video (11:46 - 17:20)
  + CMOS SRAM with read/write operation - refer this video (0:00 - 39:20)
  + CMOS DRAM with read/write (DRAM is the double data rate (DDR) RAM in the computer) - refer this video (0:00 - 33:20)
  + ROM, EPROM, EEPROM - refer to this lecture (Flash memory/pendrive is a form of EEPROM)
  + Alternately concise videos of the above topics can be found here and here. For text materials refer module-6 at this link
  + Introduction to PLDs - refer this lecture

• VLSI Testing, test principles, design strategies for test, BIST
  + Lectures 48 - 57 at this link. Alternately, you can watch the lectures 33 - 38 at this link.
  + Lecture 45 at this link for introduction to system/chip level testing

• FPGA and ASIC overview, comparison, and factors influencing cost of VLSI
  + Introduction to FPGA - refer this video
  + Watch the following lectures from Xilinx for comparison of FPGA and ASIC - video-1, video-2, video-3
  

Click on the links for experiments and manuals.

Download Qucsstudio - an open source, versatile, SPICE tool. Check out the tool manuals (video and text) and some examples.

Check out the example lab record manual for full-adder here.

Download Qucsstudio - an open source, versatile, SPICE tool. Check out the tool manuals (video and text).

Check the example file on "digital simulations" here. Example project of full-adder is available here.