VL4152 Digital CMOS VLSI Design Syllabus:

VL4152 Digital CMOS VLSI Design Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To introduce the transistor level design of all digital building blocks common to all cmos microprocessors, network processors, digital backend of all wireless systems etc.
 To introduce the principles and design methodology in terms of the dominant circuit choices, constraints and performance measures
 To learn all important issues related to size, speed and power consumption

UNIT I MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLES AND CMOS INVERTER

MOSFET characteristic under static and dynamic conditions, MOSFET secondary effects, elmore constant , CMOS inverter-static characteristic, dynamic characteristic, power, energy, and energy delay parameters, stick diagram and layout diagrams.

UNIT II COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS

Static CMOS design, different styles of logic circuits, logical effort of complex gates, static and dynamic properties of complex gates, interconnect delay, dynamic logic gates.

UNIT III SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS

Static latches and registers, dynamic latches and registers, timing issues, pipelines, clocking strategies, nonbistable sequential circuits.

UNIT IV ARITHMETIC BUILDING BLOCKS

Data path circuits, architectures for adders, accumulators, multipliers, barrel shifters, speed, power and area tradeoffs.

UNIT V MEMORY ARCHITECTURES

Memory architectures and Memory control circuits: Read-Only Memories, ROM cells, Read Write Memories (RAM), dynamic memory design, 6 Transistor SRAM cell, sense amplifiers.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
CO1: Use mathematical methods and circuit analysis models in analysis of CMOS digital circuits
CO2: Create models of moderately sized static CMOS combinational circuits that realize specified digital functions and to optimize combinational circuit delay using RC delay models and logical effort
CO3: Design sequential logic at the transistor level and compare the tradeoffs of sequencing elements including flip-flops, transparent latches
CO4: Understand design methodology of arithmetic building blocks
CO5: Design functional units including ROM and SRAM

TOTAL:45 PERIODS

REFERENCES:

1. N.Weste, K. Eshraghian, “ Principles Of Cmos VLSI Design”, Addision Wesley, 2nd Edition, 1993
2. M J Smith, “Application Specific Integrated Circuits”, Addisson Wesley, 1997
3. Sung-Mo Kang & Yusuf Leblebici, “CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis And Design”, Mcgraw-Hill, 1998
4. Jan Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, B Nikolic, “ Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective”, Prentice Hall Of India, 2nd Edition, Feb 2003