Welcome to the course on CMOS VLSI Design.
Class timings: Mon-8.30am, Tue-10.30am, Fri -9.20am
Week -1: (14/11 to 20/11)
Course introduction
Lec02-Historical perspective of electronics and telecommunication
Lec03-Semiconductor basics and charge carriers in semiconductors (slides)
Week -2: (21/11 to 27/11)
Lec04-Carrier concentration and carrier transport basics (slides) (video)
Lec05-PN junction electrostatics and biasing modes (slides) (video)
Lec06-Introduction to MOSFETs and its band diagram (slides) (video)
Week -3: (28/11 to 04/12)
Lec07-Operation of MOS capacitor (no recording)
Lec08-MOSFET operation and Id eqn and characteristics (slides) (video)
Lec09-Transistor as amplifier and switch-operating regions (slides) (video)
Week -4: (05/12 to 11/12)
Lec10-MOSFET velocity saturation, pmos, and pass transistors intro (slides) (video)
Week -5: (12/12 to 18/12)
Lec11-Pass transistor logic, transmission gate, CMOS logic using nmos and pmos (slides) (no recording)
Lec12-CMOS inverter VTC characteristics (slides) (video)
Week -6: (19/12 to 25/12)
Lec13-VTC of inverter from the output characteristics of pmos and nmos (slides) (video)
Lec14-Implementing logic gates and compound gates using CMOS logic (slides) (no recording)
Vacation - 22/12/22 to 22/01/23
Week -7: (23/01 to 29/01)
Lec15-Recap of CMOS logic and design equations (no recording)
Lec16-CMOS inverter fabrication, layout design rules, and stick diagram (slides)
Week -8: (30/01 to 05/02)
CT1
CT-1 solution discussion
Week -9: (06/02 to 12/02)
Lec17-MOSFET resistances and sizing of transistors in a gate (slides)
Week -10: (13/02 to 19/02)
Lec18-MOSFET capacitances and parasitic delay estimation (slides)
Lec19-Introduction to external along with parasitic delay (slides)
Week -11: (20/02 to 26/02)
Week -12: (27/02 to 05/03)
Gyanith (1-4 March)
Week -13: (06/03 to 12/03)
Lec20-Propagation and contamination delay with Elmore's formula (no recording)
Lec21-External delay and normalized delay calculation (slides)
Lec22-
Week -14: (13/03 to 19/03)
Lec23- Noise margin and
Lec24-Pseudo NMOS logic and transistor size estimation (no recording)
Lec25-Dynamic CMOS logic and buffer insertion to drive large off chip capacitors (no recording)
Week -15: (20/03 to 26/03)
Week -16: (27/03 to 31/03)
CT2
Week -17: (03/04 to 09/04)
Week -18: (10/04 to 16/04)
Week -19: (17/04 to 23/04)
Assignment-1 (Uploaded 14/12/22)
Due date: 27/01/23
Assignment-2 (Uploaded 07/03/23)
Due date: 21/03/23