VSD 402T - CMOS Circuit and Layout Design  
 

Indicative contents

  • Introduction to CMOS VLSI design
  • CMOS Fabrication
  • MOS Transistor Theory: Basic MOS Capacitor, MOSFET Current Voltage Characteristics
  • MOSFET Scaling and small geometry effects, MOSFET Capacitance
  • Modelling of MOS transistors using SPICE, Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 MOS models
  • CMOS Inverter: Static Characteristics and Dynamic Characteristics
  • Combinational logic Circuits: NOR and NAND Gates
  • Sequential Logic Circuits
  • Memories: SRAM, DRAM
  • IOB
  • Layout Basics, Standard Cell layout design considerations, Parasitic effects in layout
  • Analog layout design

Module Resources

  • Essential reading
    1. Course notes
  • Recommended Reading
    1. S.M.Kang and Y.Leblebici,” CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis and design”,3rd edition, Mc.Graw Hill 2002
    2. N. H. E. Weste and K. Eshraghian, “Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: a Systems Perspective”, 2nd Edition, 1992.
    3. R. L. Geiger, P. E. Allen and N. R. Strader, “VLSI Design Techniques for Analog and Digital Circuits,” McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, 1990
    4. Jan M.Rabaey , Anantha Chandrakasan , Borivoje Nikolic,”Digital Integrated Circuits: A design Perspective”,2nd Edition ,Pearson Education,2003
    5. R. J. Baker, H. W. Li, and D. E. Boyce, CMOS Circuit Design,Layout and Simulation”,IEEE Press, NY, 1998
    6. M.S. Tyagi, “Introduction to Semiconductor Materials and Devices,” Wiley New York, 1991