Prerequisite: Course Objectives: Course Outcomes:: VLSI Design (404201)

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To design digital circuits using VHDL.

lement digital circuits using CPLD/FPGA.


To detect faults in the design.
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basic PLDs.
Knowledge of VHDL.
After successfully completing the course students will be able to
Understand VLSI Design Flow.
Design any digital circuit using VHDL.
Understand the importance of testability in chip design.
Prerequisite:
Course Objectives:
Course Outcomes:
To understand CMOS and its application in VLSI Circuits.

Unit I : Introduction to VLSI Circuits 7L


Introduction to MOSFETs: MOS Transistor Theory Device Structure and Physical Operation,
Current Voltage Characteristics, Fabrication, MOS Capacitor, Body Effect, Temperature Effects,
Channel Length Modulation, Latch-up.
MOS Inverter: MOS Transistors, MOS Transistor Switches, CMOS Logic, Circuit and System
Representations, Design Equations, Transistor Sizing, Voltage Transfer Characteristics, Power
Dissipation, Noise Margin, Power Delay Product, Energy dissipation.
MOS Layers Stick/Layout Diagrams; Layout Design Rules, Issues of Scaling, Scaling factor for
device parameters. Combinational MOS Logic Circuits: Pass Transistors/Transmission Gates;
Designing with transmission gates: Primitive Logic Gates.
Unit VI : Fault Tolerance and Testability 6L
Types of fault, stuck open, short, stuck at 1, 0 faults, Fault coverage, Need of Design for
Testability (DFT), Controllability, predictability, testability, built in Self Test (BIST), Partial and
full scan check, Need of boundary scan check, JTAG, Test Access Port (TAP) controller.
Text Books
1. Neil H. Weste and Kamran, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, Pearson Publication
2. John F. Wakerly, Digital Design, Principles and Practices, Prentice Hall Publication
Reference Books
1. Douglas Perry, VHDL, McGraw Hill Publication.
2. Charles Roth, Digital System Design using VHDL, McGraw Hill Publication.
3. Data Sheets of PLDs.
4. Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang, Yusuf Leblebici, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, Tata
McGraw Hill Publication.

VLSI Design (404201)


Teaching Scheme:
Lectures: 3 Hrs/ Week
Examination Scheme:
In Semester Assessment:
Phase I : 30
End Semester Examination:
Phase II: 70
Course Outcomes:
After successfully completing the course students will be able to
Understand VLSI Design Flow.
Design any digital circuit using VHDL.
Understand the importance of testability in chip design.
Unit II : Digital Circuit Design using VHDL 7L
Design of sequential circuits, asynchronous and synchronous design issues, state machine
modeling (Moore and mealy machines), packages, sub programs, attributes, test benches.
Unit III : Programmable Logic Devices 6L
Complex Programmable Logic Devices Architecture of CPLD, Organization of FPGAs, FPGA
Programming Technologies, Programmable Logic Block Architectures, Programmable
Interconnects, Programmable I/O blocks in FPGAs, Dedicated Specialized Components of
FPGAs, and Applications of FPGAs.
Unit IV : CMOS Subsystem Design 6L
Semiconductor memories, memory chip organization, Random Access Memories (RAM), Static
RAM (SRAM), standard architecture, 6T cell, sense amplifier, address decoders, timings.
Dynamic RAM (DRAM), different DRAM cells, refresh circuits, timings.
Unit V : Floor Planning and Placement 6L
Floor planning concepts, shape functions and floor plan sizing, Types of local routing problems
Area routing, channel routing, global routing, algorithms for global routing.

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