VLSI Technology & Design

It is aimed to introduce the students to fabrication and layout techniques necessary to design large scale systems. Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) is the process of creating integrated circuits by combining thousands of transistors into a single chip and minimize the digital world through the logics, designing, hardware description language, verification and testing.

Upon the successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• cover the different aspects of the digital VLSI circuit design with particular emphasis on low-power aspects.
• explain MOSFET structure, I-V characteristics, drain current equation and second order effects.
• explain CMOS process technology, technology scaling, physical design of CMOS circuits.
• design MOS Combinational and sequential circuits.
• design dynamic logic circuits, design CMOS circuits for driving large capacitive load.
• explain clocking in CMOS circuits.

Textbooks:

1. Low-Power VLSI Circuits and Systems by Ajit Pal, ISBN 978-81-322-1936-1 Springer New Delhi Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Springer India 2015 ISBN-13:978-0-13-602458-3, ISBN-10:978-0-13-602458-0.

References:

1. “N. Weste and D. Harris, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A Systems Perspective, 3^rd Ed., Addison-Wesley, 2005, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1-EB-14 13 12 11 10, ISBN 10: 0-321-54774-8, ISBN 13: 978-0-321-54774-3.
2. VLSI Design by M. Michael Vai,CRC Press, Sep 19, 2000 – Technology & Engineering, ISBN 9780849318764.
3. Low Power Microprocessor Design for Embedded Systems, Seong-Won Lee, Neungsoo Park, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, ISBN:3-540-34077-7 978-3-540-34077-5 doi>10.1007/.