This document outlines the course ECE3002 VLSI System Design. The course objectives are to illustrate VLSI circuit design concepts, describe CMOS logic principles, and develop skills to design medium-high complexity digital circuits. Students will learn MOS transistor theory, CMOS logic, circuit characterization, layout design, combinational/sequential circuit design, and subsystem design. Assessment includes weekly evaluations and typical projects include designs for elevator control, counters, filters, and arithmetic/logic units. The course aims to enable students to design and analyze CMOS integrated circuits meeting speed and power specifications.
This document outlines the course ECE3002 VLSI System Design. The course objectives are to illustrate VLSI circuit design concepts, describe CMOS logic principles, and develop skills to design medium-high complexity digital circuits. Students will learn MOS transistor theory, CMOS logic, circuit characterization, layout design, combinational/sequential circuit design, and subsystem design. Assessment includes weekly evaluations and typical projects include designs for elevator control, counters, filters, and arithmetic/logic units. The course aims to enable students to design and analyze CMOS integrated circuits meeting speed and power specifications.
This document outlines the course ECE3002 VLSI System Design. The course objectives are to illustrate VLSI circuit design concepts, describe CMOS logic principles, and develop skills to design medium-high complexity digital circuits. Students will learn MOS transistor theory, CMOS logic, circuit characterization, layout design, combinational/sequential circuit design, and subsystem design. Assessment includes weekly evaluations and typical projects include designs for elevator control, counters, filters, and arithmetic/logic units. The course aims to enable students to design and analyze CMOS integrated circuits meeting speed and power specifications.
This document outlines the course ECE3002 VLSI System Design. The course objectives are to illustrate VLSI circuit design concepts, describe CMOS logic principles, and develop skills to design medium-high complexity digital circuits. Students will learn MOS transistor theory, CMOS logic, circuit characterization, layout design, combinational/sequential circuit design, and subsystem design. Assessment includes weekly evaluations and typical projects include designs for elevator control, counters, filters, and arithmetic/logic units. The course aims to enable students to design and analyze CMOS integrated circuits meeting speed and power specifications.
2 0 2 4 4 Version: 1.00 Pre-requisite:: ECE2003 Digital Logic Design Objectives: To illustrate the basic concepts of modern VLSI circuit design. Describe the fundamental principles underlying digital design using CMOS logic and analyze the performance characteristics of these digital circuits. Verify that a design meets its functionality, timing constraints, both manually and through the use of computer-aided design tools. Develop problem-solving skills in order to be able to successfully approach a digital design project of medium to high complexity in the final semester.
Expected Outcome: Design and analyze the performance (Speed, Power) of CMOS digital integrated circuits for different design specifications. Identify and interpret the design towards realizing digital IC design. Use modern EDA tools to simulate and synthesize the digital designs
Student Learning Outcomes (SLO): 1,2,5,13,14
Module:1 MOS Transistor Theory: 3 hours SLO:
1,2 I-V Characteristics, C-V Characteristics, Non ideal I-V effects of MOS Transistors
Module:2 CMOS Logic: 4 hoursSLO:
1,2 Basic gates, Compound Gates, Transmission Gates based combinational and sequential logic design
Module:3 CMOS Circuit characterization and 5 hours SLO:
Performance Estimation : 1,2,5 DC transfer Characteristics of CMOS inverter, Circuit characterization and performance estimation: Delay estimation, Logical effort and Transistor Sizing. Power Dissipation: Static & Dynamic Power Dissipation.
Module:4 CMOS Fabrication and Layout: 3 hours SLO:
1,2 CMOS Process Technology N-well, P-well process, Stick diagram for Boolean functions using Euler Theorem, Layout Design Rule
1,2,5 Conventional CMOS Latches and Flip Flops, Pulsed Latches, Resettable and Enabled Latches and Flip Flops Module:7 Sub System Design: 5 hours SLO: 1,2,5 Single bit Adder, Carry look ahead adder, Carry propagate Adder, Magnitude Comparator, Barrel Shifter, Signed and unsigned multiplier.
Module:8 Contemproray Issues: 2 hours SLO:
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Total Lecture: 30 hours
Text Books: 1. Neil H.Weste, Harris, A. Banerjee, “CMOS VLSI Design, A circuits and System Perspective”, Fourth Edition, Pearson Education, 2010.
Reference Books: 1. Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chadrakasan, BorivojeNikolic, “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective”, Second Edition, Prentice Hall India, 2009 (reprint). 2. J P Colinge, “FinFETs and other Multi-Gate Transistors”, Springer, 2008. 3. Yogesh Chauhan, Darsen Duane Lu, Vanugopalan Sriramkumar, Sourabh Khandelwal, Juan Duarte, NavidPayvadosi, Ai Niknejad, Chenming Hu, “FinFETModeling for IC Simulation and Design”, Academic Press, 2015.
Sample Experiemnts 30 Hours SLO:14
Phase-1 (Week-1 to Week-4) Week-1 Cadence EDA Tool Demo & Hands on - Schematic Week-2 Basic Cell structure (NMOS & PMOS) using conventional MOS Week-3 Verification with different corners Week-4 Design and Analysis of CMOS circuits (Analysis: Power, Delay, NM, PDP) (Design: Sizing)
Phase-2 (Week-5 to Week-8)
Week-1 Cadence EDA Tool Demo & Hands on – Layout & Post Layout Simulation Week-2 Basic Cell layout (CMOS) Week-3 Fingering and folding Week-4 Standard cell design for different technology node
Week-1 ALU Design using conventional CMOS Week-2 Simple Processor Design using conventional CMOS
# Assessment on a weekly basis.
Typical Projects SLO:
13
1. Design and implementation of Elevator control
2. Design of Up/Down counter using 7 segment display 3. Design of LED Matrix display 4. Design of digital FIR Filter 5. Design of IIR filter 6. Design of automatic targeting system 7. Design of Electronic Voting system 8. Design of automatic vending machine 9. Design of traffic light controller 10. Design of universal shift register 11. Design of FIFO 12. Design of LIFO 13. Design of digital locking system 14. Design of ALU 15. Design of floating point multiplier
