VLSI Design Techniques

Fundamentals of Enhancement Mode MOSFETs, Depletion Mode MOSFETs, Weak & strong Inversion Conditions, Threshold Voltage Concept in MOSFETs, Current-Voltage (IV), Characteristics of a MOSFET, Limitations in IV Model and MOSFET parasitics, Trends & Projections in VLSI Design & Technology, Flow of VLSI Circuit Design, Scaling in MOS devices.

NMOS, CMOS Process flow, Noise Margin, Inverter Threshold Voltage, NMOS Inverter design and characteristics, CMOS Inverter Design and Properties, Delay and Power Dissipation, Parallel & Series Equivalent circuits, Static CMOS Circuit Design.

Stick Diagrams, Physical Design Rules, Layout Designing, Euler’s Rule for Physical Design, Reliability issues in CMOS VLSI, Latching.

Precharge-Evaluate logic, Dynamic CMOS logic, NORA logic, Complementary Pass Logic (CPL), Transmission gate logic.

MOS memories: ROM design, SRAM Cell design and DRAMs

Single stage MOS Amplifiers: Common Source amplifier, Common Gate amplifier, Common Drain amplifier