TEC-602 VLSI CIRCUIT DESIGN

UNIT 1.
REVIEW: Current conduction in MOSFET, Electrical Properties of MOS and BiCMOS, The Pass
Transistor, CMOS.

UNIT 2.
CMOS Inverter: Static CMOS inverter, layout, switching threshold and noise margin concepts and their evaluation, dynamic behavior, power consumption.NMOS MOS pass transistor inverter.

COMBINATIONAL LOGIC: Static CMOS design, rationed logic, pass transistor logic, dynamic logic,cascading dynamic gates, CMOS transmission gate logic.

UNIT 3.
SEQUENTIAL LOGIC: Static latches and registers, bi-stability principle, MUX based latches, static SR flip-flops, master-slave edge-triggered register, dynamic latches and registers, concept of pipelining, Timing issues.

UNIT 4.
MEMORY AND ARRAY STRUCTURE: ROM, RAM, peripheral circuitry, memory reliability and yield,
SRAM and DRAM design, flash memory, PLA,PAL, FPGA.

UNIT 5.
DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY: Logic Testing, sequential Logic Testing, Guidelines to be adopted in Design for Test, Scan Designing Techniques, Built-In self Test (BIST)Techniques.

SUGGESTED BOOKS:

1. Basic VLSI Design by D.A. Pucknell & Eshraghian (PHI)
2. Modern VLSI Design Systems on Silicon by Wayne Wolf (Pearson Pub.)
3. R. K. Singh « VLSI DESIGN (With VHDL), Kataria & Sons » , 2nd Edition, 2010.