Syllabus

Course Code: MMVD 103    Course Name: VLSI Design

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Transistors and layouts - Transistors, Wires and Vias, Design Rules, Layout Design and Stick Diagrams - example, Logic Gate – Pseudo NMOS, DCVS, Domino. Delay through Resistive Interconnect. CMOS Inverter: Basic Circuit and DC Operation – DC Characteristics.
2 Inverter Switching Characteristics- Static behavior– Switching threshold, Noise Margin, CMOS Inverter Dynamic Behavior- capacitances, propagation delay - High-to-Low time, Low to High time, Sources of Power Consumption, Power Consumption Static and dynamic. Logic Gate - Switch Logic.
3 Combinational Logic Design- Standard cell based layout, CMOS Logic Circuits – CMOS NOR, NAND, Combinational network delays – Fan out, path delay, transistor sizing, cross talk minimization, power optimization. CMOS Transmission Gate (Pass gates). Sequential Logic design – Setup and hold time, SR latch circuit, clocked latch and flip flop circuits.
4 Sub system design, Design Principles, Adders, ALUs, High Density Memory, ROM, Static RAM case study of 4-M bit SRAM. FPGAs, PLAs. Floor Planning, Methods of Floor Planning, Chip Connections.
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