II B.E. (Electronics & Communication)

VII SEMESTER

7 EC5 VLSI DESIGN

1. INTRODUCTION TO MOS TECHNOLOGY: Basic MOS transistors, Enhancement Mode transistor action, Depletion Mode, transistor action, nMOS and CMOS fabrication.

2. BASIC ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF MOS CIRCUITS: I_da versus V_ds relationship, Aspects of threshold voltage, Transistor. Transconductance gm. The nMOS inverter, Pull up to Pull-down ratio for a nMOS Inverter and CMOS Inverter (B_p/8_p), MOS transistor circuit Model, Noise Margin.

3. CMOS LOGIC CIRCUITS: The inverter, Combinational Logic, NAND Gate NOR gate. Compound Gates, 2 input CMOS Multiplexer, Memory lalches and registers, Transmission Gate, Gate delays, CMOS-Gate Transistor sizing, Power dissipation.

4. Basic Physical design of simple Gales and Layout issues. Layout issues for inverter, Layout for NAND and NOR Gates, Complex Logic gates Layout, Layout optimization for performance. Introduction to VHDL, Prolog & other design tools. VHDL Code for simple Logic gates, flip-flops, and shifl registers.

Recommended Books :

1. Stephen Brown and Zvonlo Veranesic  -Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design, Tata Mc-Graw Hill.

2. Neil HE. Weste, Kamran Eshraghian -Principles of CMOSVLSI  Design.

3. Douglas A. Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian -Basic VLSI Design.

4. Michael John, Sebastian Smith -Application specific Integrated Circuit.

5. Behzad Razavi- -Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, Mc- Graw Hill.