() VLSI DESIGN L T P/D C

3 0 2 4
Analog Circuit Analysis,
Course type Program core Pre-requisite
Digital Electronics

COURSE OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

1. Estimate the characteristics of CMOS circuits.
2. Design and analysis different digital logics using CMOS technology.
3. Implement the circuit layout using standard fabrication technique.

UNIT –I Introduction to VLSI

VLSI Design Concepts, Moor's Law, Scale of Integration (SSI, MSI, LSI, VLSI, ULSI – basic
idea only), VLSI Design Flow, Types of VLSI Chips (Analog & Digital VLSI chips, General
purpose, ASIC, PLA, FPGA).

UNIT- II MOSFET Basics

Basic MOS Transistor, Types of MOSFET and its working principle, MOS transistor threshold
voltage, (Ids – Vds) characteristics of NMOS and PMOS transistors, MOSFET scaling, short
channel effect, NMOS inverter, Pull-up to pull-down ratio (Zpu/Zpd) of nmos inverter driven by
another nmos inverter, CMOS inverter, VTC curve, BiCMOS, Latch-up in CMOS circuits,.

UNIT-III CMOS for Digital VLSI Circuits: CMOS logic design for, NAND & NOR Gates,
Complex logic circuits , CMOS Full Adder, pass transistor logic CMOS Transmission GATE,
Advanced CMOS Logic circuits; Sequential CMOS logic circuits; SR Latch circuit, clocked JK
Latch/ Master-Slave JK, CMOS D-latch & Edge triggered flip-flop.

UNIT-IV IC Fabrication
Introduction to IC Technology, Fabrication Process steps- Oxidation, Lithography, Diffusion,
Ion implantation, Metallization, NMOS/PMOS fabrication, n-well CMOS Process, p-well
CMOS Process, Twin Tub Processes.

UNIT-IV VLSI Layout design

MOS layers, design rules, stick and layout diagrams for NMOS, PMOS and CMOS Inverters,
NAND, NOR gates.
TEXT BOOKS
1. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective-Book by David Harris and
Neil Weste
2. Digital Design and Computer Architecture-Book by David Harris.
REFERENCE BOOK
1. Wayne Wolf, “Modern VLSI Design”, Pearson education, 3rd edition.
2. Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools-Book by Erik Brunvand

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS (Note: Minimum 10 experiments to be conducted)

1. I-V Characteristics of NMOS Using SPICE tools

2. I-V Characteristics of PMOS Using SPICE tools
3. Transient analysis of NMOS and CMOS Inverters
4. Transient analysis of CMOS AND/NAND gates
5. Transient analysis of CMOS OR/NOR gates
6. Transient Analysis of CMOS XOR/XNOR gates
7. Design and Simulation of CMOS Full Adder
8. Design and Simulation of CMOS parity generator
9. Design and simulation of CMOS comparator
10. Design of basic logic gates using pass transistor technology