UNIT - I

Introduction:

1. Introduction to IC Technology

a. MOS,

b. PMOS,

c. NMOS,

d. CMOS &

e. BiCMOS Technologies

2. Fabrication Process.

Basic Electrical Properties:

1. Basic Electrical Properties of MOS and Bi-CMOS Circuits:

a. I_ds-V_ds relationships,

b. MOS transistor threshold Voltage,

c. g_m,

d. g_ds,

e. figure of merit;

2. Pass transistor,

3. NMOS Inverter,

4. Various pull ups,

5. CMOS Inverter analysis and design,

6. Bi-CMOS Inverters.

UNIT - II

VLSI Circuit Design Processes:

1. VLSI Design Flow,

2. MOS Layers,

3. Stick Diagrams,

4. Design Rules and

5. Layout, and

6. Transistors Layout Diagrams for NMOS and CMOS Inverters and Gates,

7. Scaling of MOS circuits,

8. Limitations of Scaling.

Gate Level Design:

1. Logic Gates and Other complex gates,

2. Switch logic,

3. Alternate gate circuits,

4. Basic circuit concepts,

5. Sheet Resistance R_S and its concept to MOS,

6. Area Capacitance Units,

7. Calculations – RC Delays.

UNIT - III

Subsystem Design:

1. Shifters,

2. Adders:

a. Carry skip,

b. carry select,

c. square root Carry Select,

d. Manchester;

3. ALU,

4. Multipliers:

a. Booth,

b. Baugh-Woolley,

5. High Density Memory Elements:

a. SRAM,

b. DRAM,

c. ROM Design.

UNIT - IV

Sequential Logic Design:

1. Behavior of Bi-stable elements,

2. SR Latch,

3. Clocked Latch and Flip-flop circuits,

4. CMOS D latch and Edge triggered Flip flops.

CMOS Testing:

1. CMOS Testing,

2. Need for testing,

3. Test Principles,

4. Design Strategies for test,

5. Chip level Test Techniques,

6. System-level Test Techniques,

7. Layout Design for improved Testability.

UNIT - V

Analog VLSI Design:

1. Small signal model of MOSFETs,

2. Simple CMOS current mirror,

3. Common Source Amplifier,

4. Source follower,

5. Common Gate Amplifier,

6. Source degenerated current mirror,

7. Cascode Current Mirror

8. Wilson Current Mirrors.

Suggested Readings:

1. Kamran Eshraghian, Eshraghian Dougles and A. Pucknell, “Essentials of VLSI circuits and systems”, PHI, 2005Edition.

2. Weste and Eshraghian, “Principles of CMOS VLSI Design”, Pearson Education,1999.

3. John.P. Uyemura, “Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems”, JohnWiley,2003.

4. John M. Rabaey, “Digital Integrated Circuits”, PHI, EEE,1997.

5. Wayne Wolf,” Modern VLSI Design”, Pearson Education, 3rd Edition,1997.