Course Title VLSI I

Course Code EEE-4753

Pre-requisite EEE-3607
Credit 3

Section-A (Mid-term Exam: 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, PMOS I-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.
Section-B (SEE: 50 Marks)
Group-A (20-Marks)

4. CMOS Fabrication: Introduction to Fabrication, Basic Fabrication Steps, Litho-grapy,

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 Systems- A Practical Introduction, 1st ed., London,
UK, Macmillan Education Ltd.1987
2. Neil H.E.Weste, David Money Harris, CMOS VLSI Design- A Circuits And Systems
Perspective, 4th ed. United States of America, Pearson Education Inc., 2011
3. Adel S. Sedra , Kenneth C.Smith, Micro Electronic Circuits, 5th ed. Newyork, USA, Oxford
University Press, 2004
4. Douglas A. Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian, Basic VLSI Design, 3rd ed.,India , PHI

Prepared by: Checked by: Approved by:

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Riazul Islam Dr. Sikder Sunbeam Islam Dr. Md. Delawer Hossain
Lecturer, Assoc. Professor & Chairman, Director, IQAC
Department of Electrical and Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, IIUC Electronic Engineering, IIUC