Indicative contents

1. Exercises to understand the tool used using basic MOS circuits, use of subcircuits.
2. Spice simulation of basic circuit consisting of Resistances, capacitances and inductors
3. Exercises to understand basic MOS and its characteristics.
4. Exercises on Pmos and Nmos transistors of different parameters to measure VI characteristics.
5. CMOS Inverter Characteristics, Static and Dynamic Characteristics
6. Exercises on realizing basic gates in CMOS to meet the design parameters
7. Exercises on complex combinational logic
8. Exercises on sequential circuits
9. Circuits using transmission gates.
10. Memory cells design
11. SRAM and DRAM cell design
12. Standard cell designs, Layout consideration, Layout template design, pitch calculation, cell design using template.
13. Analog Layout design, Transistor folding, matching issues.
14. Layout for Passive components

 

Module Resources

• Books
  1. Neil Weste, “Principles of CMOS VLSI Design”, Mc Graw Hill Publications, 2nd Edn, 2002.
  2. Douglas A. Pucknell “Basic VLSI Design”, Tata-Mc Graw Hill Publications, 1st Edn, 2001.
  3. Jon M Rabeay, “Digital Integrated Circuits”
  4. R. Jacob Baker, “CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation”, Prentice Hall India Publications, 1st Edn II print, 2000.
  5. Michael John Sebastian Smith, “Application-Specific Integrated Circuits”, Pearson Education, 2001.
  6. Morris mono, “Digital logic design”, Kluwer Academic Publications, 2nd Edn, 2000.
  7. Daniel D Gajski, “Principles of Digital Design”, Prentice Hall Publications, 2nd Edn, 1995.
      
• Laboratory

Software Tools / Hardware : Hspice, Nanosim, Virtuso digital design suite, Assura LVS, DRC, Spectre, Tanner full suite
Lab Manuals : Virtuoso MSRSAS Manual, Hspice MSRSAS Manual, Nanosim MSRSAS Manual, Virtuso digital design suite Manual, Assura LVS, DRC, Manual, Spectre MSRSAS Manual, Tanner full suite MSRSAS Manual