06EC56 - FUNDAMENTALS OF CMOS VLSI |
PART – A |
UNIT – I BASIC MOS TECHNOLOGY: |
BASIC MOS TECHNOLOGY:Integrated circuit’s era. Enhancement and
depletion mode MOS transistors. nMOS fabrication. CMOS fabrication.
Thermal aspects of processing. BiCMOS technology. Production of E-beam
masks.
MOS TRANSISTOR THEORY: Introduction, MOS Device Design
Equations, The Complementary CMOS Inverter – DC Characteristics, Static
Load MOS Inverters, The Differential Inverter, The Transmission Gate,
Tristate Inverter. |
UNIT – II CIRCUIT DESIGN PROCESSES: |
MOS layers. Stick diagrams. Design
rules and layout – lambda-based design and other rules. Examples. Layout
diagrams. Symbolic diagrams. Tutorial exercises.Basic Physical Design of Simple logic gates. |
UNIT – III CMOS LOGIC STRUCTURES: |
CMOS Complementary Logic, Bi CMOS
Logic, Pseudo-nMOS Logic, Dynamic CMOS Logic, Clocked CMOS Logic,
Pass Transistor Logic, CMOS Domino Logic Cascaded Voltage Switch
Logic (CVSL). |
UNIT – IV |
BASIC CIRCUIT CONCEPTS:Sheet resistance. Area capacitances.
Capacitance calculations. The delay unit. Inverter delays. Driving capacitive
loads. Propagation delays. Wiring capacitances.SCALING OF MOS CIRCUITS: Scaling models and factors. Limits on
scaling. Limits due to current density and noise. |
PART – B |
UNIT – V CMOS SUBSYSTEM DESIGN: |
Architectural issues. Switch logic. Gate
logic. Design examples – combinational logic. Clocked circuits. Other system
considerations.Clocking Strategies |
UNIT – VI CMOS SUBSYSTEM DESIGN PROCESSES: |
General considerations.
Process illustration. ALU subsystem. Adders. Multipliers. |
UNIT – VII MEMORY, REGISTERS AND CLOCK: |
Timing considerations. Memory
elements. Memory cell arrays. |
UNIT – VIII TESTABILITY: |
Performance parameters. Layout issues. I/O pads. Real
estate. System delays. Ground rules for design. Test and testability. |
REFERENCE |
TEXT BOOKS: |
1. Basic VLSI Design - Douglas A. Pucknell & Kamran Eshraghian,
PHI 3rd Edition (original Edition – 1994), 2005.
2. Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A Systems Perspective, Neil
H. E. Weste and K. Eshragian, 2nd edition, Pearson Education (Asia)
Pvt. Ltd., 2000. |
Reference Books |
1. Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices, M. K. Achuthan and K.
N. Bhat, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, New
Delhi, 2007.
2. CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design, Sung-
Mo Kang & Yusuf Leblebici, 3rd Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill
Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, 2007.
3. Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits - D.A Hodges,
H.G Jackson and R.A Saleh. 3rd Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill
Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi, 2007. |