EC308

VLSI System Design (3 – 0 - 0) 3

VLSI technology- NMOS, CMOS and BICMOS circuit fabrication. Layout design rules. Stick diagram. Latch up.

System design using HDL- circuit and system representation. Hierarchical representation of digital system. An overview of Verilog. Basics of verilog, operators, hierarchy, procedures and assignments. Timing controls, delay, tasks and functions. Control statements. Test benches.

VLSI logic circuits and analysis- MOS and CMOS switches. Implementation of logic circuits using MOS and CMOS technology, multiplexers and memory, MOS transistors, threshold voltage, MOS device design equations. MOS models, small-signal AC analysis. CMOS inverters, propagation delay of inverters, power dissipation.

Programmable logic devices- antifuse, EPROM and SRAM techniques. Programmable logic cells. Programmable inversion and expander logic. Design flow for VLSI circuits. Computation of interconnect delay.

VLSI testing -need for testing , manufacturing test principles, design strategies for test, chip level and system level test techniques.

References:

N.H.E.Weste etal, CMOS VLSI design, (3/e), Pearson , 2005

J. Smith, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison Wesley, 1997.

Uyemura, Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems, Wiley, 2002.