Vlsi Design
Vlsi Design
VLSI DESIGN
Course Objectives:
The objectives of the course are to:
Give exposure to different steps involved in the fabrication of ICs using MOS transistor, CMOS/BICMOS
transistors and passive components.
Explain electrical properties of MOS and BiCMOS devices to analyze the behavior of inverters designed
with various loads.
Give exposure to the design rules to be followed to draw the layout of any logic circuit.
Provide concept to design different types of logic gates using CMOS inverter and analyze their transfer
characteristics.
Provide design concepts to design building blocks of data path of any system using gates.
Understand basic programmable logic devices and testing of CMOS circuits.
UNIT –I:
Introduction: Introduction to IC Technology – MOS, PMOS, NMOS, CMOS & BiCMOS
Basic Electrical Properties: Basic Electrical Properties of MOS and BiCMOS Circuits: Ids-Vds relationships, MOS
transistor threshold Voltage, gm, gds, Figure of merit ωo; Pass transistor, NMOS Inverter, Various pull ups, CMOS
Inverter analysis and design, Bi-CMOS Inverters.
UNIT -II:
VLSI Circuit Design Processes: VLSI Design Flow, MOS Layers, Stick Diagrams, Design Rules and Layout, 2 μm
CMOS Design rules for wires, Contacts and Transistors Layout Diagrams for NMOS and CMOS Inverters and Gates,
Scaling of MOS circuits.
UNIT –III:
Gate Level Design: Logic Gates and Other complex gates, Switch logic, Alternate gate circuits, Time delays, Driving
large capacitive loads, Wiring capacitance, Fan – in, Fan – out, Choice of layers.
UNIT -IV:
Data Path Subsystems: Subsystem Design, Shifters, Adders, ALUs, Multipliers, Parity generators, Comparators,
Zero/One Detectors, Counters.
Array Subsystems: SRAM, DRAM, ROM, Serial Access Memories.
UNIT -V:
Programmable Logic Devices: PLAs, FPGAs, CPLDs, Standard Cells, Programmable Array Logic, Design
Approach, Parameters influencing low power design.
CMOS Testing: CMOS Testing, Need for testing, Test Principles, Design Strategies for test, Chip level Test
Techniques.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Essentials of VLSI circuits and systems – Kamran Eshraghian, Eshraghian Dougles and A. Pucknell, PHI, 2005
Edition
2. CMOS VLSI Design – A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Neil H. E Weste, David Harris, Ayan Banerjee, 3 rd
Ed, Pearson, 2009.
3. VLSI Design – M. Michael Vai, 2001, CRC Press.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Introduction to VLSI Systems: A Logic, Circuit and System Perspective – Ming-BO Lin, CRC Press, 2011
2. CMOS logic circuit Design - John .P. Uyemura, Springer, 2007.
3. Modern VLSI Design - Wayne Wolf, Pearson Education, 3rd Edition, 1997.
4. VLSI Design- K .Lal Kishore, V. S. V. Prabhakar, I.K International, 2009.
5. Introduction to VLSI – Mead & Convey, BS Publications, 2010.
Course Outcomes:
Upon successfully completing the course, the student should be able to:
Acquire qualitative knowledge about the fabrication process of integrated circuit using MOS transistors.
Choose an appropriate inverter depending on specifications required for a circuit
Draw the layout of any logic circuit which helps to understand and estimate parasitics of any logic circuit
Design different types of logic gates using CMOS inverter and analyze their transfer characteristics
Provide design concepts required to design building blocks of data path using gates.
Design simple memories using MOS transistors and can understand Design of large memories.
design simple logic circuit using PLA, PAL, FPGA and CPLD.
Understand different types of faults that can occur in a system and learn the concept of testing and adding
extra hardware to improve testability of system