Course Code: EEE 4711 Course Title: VLSI Design System
Credit Hours: 2 Contact Hours: 2 per week
[Prerequisite course: EEE 3607 Solid State Devices]
Objectives: In this course student will learn about VLSI design technique and modeling as well as CMOS circuit design, characteristics and applications.
Section A (Mid Term: 30 Marks)
1. Introduction: Integrated Circuits trends, choice of technology, design approaches, the design process, Mooer`s law, VLSI Design style, overviews of VLSI Design Tools.
2.Introduction to MOS Devices and Basic Circuits: MOS device structure, MOS device mode of operation(cut off, saturation, linear, accumulation, depletion), threshold voltage, body effect, NMOS I-V equations and characteristics, PMOSI-V equations and characteristics, Principle of inverter, NMOS Inverter with resister load, NMOS Inverter with NMOS Enhancement Transistor load, NMOS Inverter with NMOS Depletion Transistor load.
3.CMOS Inverter Design: The CMOS inverter, Transfer characteristics, noise merging, Resistance, capacitance, rise and fall times, delay, switching characteristics, gate transistor sizing and power consumption. [4 lecture]
Section-B (Final Exam: 50 Marks)
Group-A (20-Marks
4. CMOS Fabrication: Introduction to Fabrication, Basic Fabrication Steps, Lithograpy, Diffusion and Ion Implementation, Epitaxy, Etching, Wafer cleaning, Metallization and Passivation, Steps for Fabricating a NMOS Transistor, n-Well CMOS Technology, p-Well CMOS Technology.
5. Design Rule: CMOS Process Layers, Intra-Layer Design Rules (λ), Inter-Layer Design Rules - Transistor Layout (λ), Inter-Layer Design Rules - Contact and Via (λ), Select Layer (λ), CMOS Inverter Layout.
Group B (30 Marks)
6. MOS Logical Circuit Design: Combinational and sequential logic, Random logic, Static and Dynamic logic gates, N-MOS Transistor series/ Parallel combination, P-MOS Transistor series/ Parallel combination, DC analysis (NAND, NOR, X-OR, X-NOR), Series Parallel Equivalent Circuits, Pass transistor and Transmission gates
7. Overview of Implementation Approaches: Full Custom and Semi-Custom Design, Cell based design, Array based design, Standard cells design, Programmable Logic Array, FPGA, Stick Diagram, Scaling, Effect of Scaling in Circuit Performance.
8. Introduction of HDLs and VHDL: HDLs applications, Range of use, VHDL - overview: VHDL - History, VHDL - Application Field, VHDL benefits, VHDL model components, VHDL architecture bodies, Structural description, Behavioral description.
Recommended Books:
1 Linda E.M Brackenbury Design of VLSI System
2 Douglas A. Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian Basic VLSI Design
3 Wayne Wolf Modern VLSI Design, Oxford McGraw Hill
4 Weste&Eshraghian Principles of CMOS VLSI Design
5 Douglas Perry VHDL, McGraw Hill