U23EC501 VLSI DESIGN
Prerequisites:
Digital Principles and System Organization, Electronic Circuits
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To Understand about MoS Transistor and CMOS fabrication and layout.
To Understand about combinational and sequential logic MoS circuits.
To learn about Arithmetic Building Blocks.
UNIT I MOS TRANSISTOR 9
Long-Channel I-V Characteristics, C-V Characteristics, DC transfer Characteristics, Simple MOS
Capacitance Models, Detailed MOS Gate Capacitance Model, Detailed MOS Diffusion Capacitance
Model, Nonideal I-V Effects, Mobility Degradation, Velocity Saturation, Channel Length Modulation,
Threshold Voltage Effects, Leakage, Temperature & Geometry Dependence.
UNIT II CMOS FABRICATION & LAYOUT 9
CMOS Inverter Cross-Section, Introduction to Fabrication Process, CMOS Fabrication Process, Layout
Design Rules, Gate Layouts, Stick Diagrams.
UNIT III COMBINATIONAL MOS LOGIC CIRCUITS
Static CMOS, Ratioed Circuits, Cascode Voltage Switch Logic, Pass Transistor Logic, Transmission
Gates, Dynamic CMOS, Domino, Dual Rail Domino.
UNIT IV SEQUENTIAL MOS LOGIC CIRCUITS 9
Introduction to Sequential Logic, Behaviour of Bistable Elements, SR Latch Circuit, Clocked Latch, Flip-
Flop Circuit, CMOS D-Latch, Edge Triggered Flip-Flop, Edge Triggered D Flip-Flop.
UNIT V DESIGN OF ARITHMETIC BUILDING BLOCKS
Adders, Binary Adder, Ripple carry Adder, Carry bypass Adder, Carry select adder, Linear carry
select adder, Square root carry select adder.
45 PERIODS
PRACTICAL EXERCISES:
1. Design of basic combinational circuits using HDL. Simulate it using Xilinx
2. Design of basic sequential (Flip-flops) circuits using HDL. Simulate it using Xilinx
3. Design an Adder (Min 8 Bit) using HDL. Simulate it using Xilinx
4. Design a 4 bit ripple carry adder using HDL. Simulate it using Xilinx
5. Design a Multiplier (4 Bit Min) using HDL. Simulate it using Xilinx
6. Design and simulate a CMOS inverter
7. Design and simulate a CMOS Basic Gates
30 PERIODS
TOTAL: 75 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS:
1.Sung-Mo Kang, Yusuf Leblebici, “CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits”, 3rd Edition, Tata McGraw Hill,
2007.
2.Neil H E Weste, David Harris, Ayan Banerjee, “CMOS VLSI Design A Circuits and Systems Perspective”,
4th Edition, Pearson Education, 2012.
REFERENCES:
1.Jan M Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikoli, “Digital Integrated Circuits A Design
Perspective”, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.
2.Kamran Eshraghian, Dougles A Pucknell, Sholeh Eshraghian, “Essentials of VLSI circuits and systems”,
1st Edition, Prentice Hall, 2005.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
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COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon the completion of the course, the students will be able to
CO1 Comprehend about MOS Transistors and its characteristics.
CO2 Explain CMOS fabrication and layout design.
CO3 Apply the concepts of combinational logic in CMOS circuit design.
CO4 Summarize the concepts of Sequential logic circuits.
CO5 Design of Arithmetic Building Blocks.
