5EE6.3 INTRODUCTION TO VLSI

Unit-1 Introduction to MOS Technology: Basic MOS transistors, Enhancement Mode transistor action, Depletion Mode transistor action, NMOS and CMOS fabrication.
Unit-2 Basic Electrical Properties of MOS Circuits: Ids versus Vds relationship, Aspects of threshold voltage, Transistor Transconductance gm. The nMOS inverter, Pull up to Pull-down ratio for a NMOS Inverter and CMOS Inverter (Bn/Bp), MOS transistor circuit Model, Noise Margin.
Unit-3 CMOS Logic Circuits: The inverter, Combinational Logic, NAND Gate NOR gate, Compound Gates, 2 input CMOS Multiplexer, Memory latches and registers, Transmission Gate, Gate delays, CMOS-Gate Transistor sizing, Power dissipation.
Unit-4 Basic Physical Design of Simple Gates and Layout Issues: Layout issues for inverter, Layout for NAND and NOR Gates, Complex Logic gates Layout, Layout optimization for performance.
Unit-5 Introduction to VHDL, Verilog & other design tools. VHDL Code for simple Logic gates, flipflops, shift-registers, Counters, Multiplexers, adders and subtractors.

Reference/Suggested Books
1. S M Sze: VLSI Technology (TMH)
2. SM KANG:CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, TMH
3. Stephen A Compbell: The Science & Engineering of Microelectronic Fabrication, Oxford.
4. James D Plummer, Micheal Deal & Petter B Griffin: Silicon VLSI Tech. Fundamental,
Practice & Modeling, Prentice Hall.