M.E.

Microelectronics
 Semester wise Pattern for Students Admitted to Higher Degree Programmes in the First Semester
First Semester U Second Semester U
M.E. Microelectronics
MEL G611 IC Fabrication Technology 5 BITS G540 Research Practice 4
MEL G621 VLSI Design 5 MEL G632 Analog IC Design 5
MEL G631 Physics & Modeling of MEL G641 CAD for IC Design 5
Microelectronic Devices 5 Elective *
Elective *
19 18
Elective * BITS G629T Dissertation 16
Elective * or Or
Elective * BITS G639 Practice School 20
Elective *
13 16/2
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List of Core Courses

MEL G611 IC Fabrication Technology
MEL G621 VLSI Design
MEL G631 Physics & Modeling of Microelectronic Devices
MEL G632 Analog IC Design
MEL G641 CAD for IC Design

List of Elective Courses (Any Six)

BITS F415 Introduction to MEMS
CS G553 Reconfigurable Computing
CS G562 Advanced Architecture and Performance Evaluation
CS G612 Fault-Tolerant System Design
EEE F434 Digital Signal Processing
EEE G510 RF Microelectronics
EEE G512 Embedded System Design
EEE G522 Advanced Satellite Communication
EEE G594 Advanced VLSI Devices
EEE G595 Nanoelectronics and Nanophotonics
EEE G613 Advanced Digital Signal Processing
EEE G626 Hardware-Software Co-Design
MEL G512 Optoelectronic devises Circuits and Systems
MEL G531 Testable Design and Fault-Tolerant Computing
MEL G612 Integrated Electronics Design
MEL G622 Introduction to Artificial Neural networks
MEL G623 Advanced VLSI Design
MEL G624 Advanced VLSI Architectures
MEL G625 Advanced Analog and Mixed-Signal Design
MEL G626 VLSI Test and Testability
MEL G642 VLSI Architectures

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 Course Descriptions

MEL G611 IC Fabrication Technology [3 2 5]

Material properties; crystal growth and doping; diffusion; oxidation; epitaxy; ion implantation;
deposition of films using CVD, LPCVD, and sputtering techniques; wet and dry etching and cleaning;
lithographic process; device and circuit fabrication; process modeling and simulation.

MEL G621 VLSI Design [3 2 5]

Introduction to NMOS and CMOS circuits; NMOS and CMOS processing technology; CMOS circuits
and logic design; circuit characterization and performance estimation; structured design and testing;
symbolic layout systems; CMOS subsystem design; system case studies.

MEL G631 Physics and Modelling of Microelectronic Devices [3 2 5]

Physics and properties of semiconductor - a review; pn junction diode; bipolar transistor; metal-
semiconductor contacts; JFET and MESFET; MOSFET and scaling; CCD and photonic devices.

MEL G632 Analog IC Design [3 2 5]

Basic concepts; BICMOS process and technology; current and voltage sources; differential and
operational amplifiers; multipliers and modulators; phase-lock techniques; D-to-A and A- to-D
converters; micropower circuits; high voltage circuits; radiation-resistant circuits; filter design
considerations.

MEL G642 VLSI Architectures [2 2 4]

Overview of CISC processor architectures; Instruction set architecture of CISC processor; hardware
flow-charting methods; implementing microprocessor logic from hardware flowcharts; RISC
instruction set architecture; Pipelined execution of RISC instructions; pipeline execution unit design;
control hazards; design of memory hierarchy.

BITS G540 Research Practice [4]

This course is designed to train the students towards acquiring competence in research methodologies.
The course will be conducted in terms of actual participation in Research and Development Work. Each
student will be assigned to a faculty member to work on specified projects. The student will be required
to present some seminars in his research area in a structured manner.

CS G553 Reconfigurable Computing [5]

Overview of Programmable Logics. FPGA fabric architectures. Logic Elements and Switch Networks.
Design and Synthesis of Combinational and Sequential Elements. Placement and Routing. Pipelining
and other Design Methodologies. Fine-grained and Coarse-Grained FPGAs. Static and Dynamic
Reconfiguration. Partitioning. Hardware/Software Portioning and Partial Evaluation. Systolic
Architectures.

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EEE F434 Digital Signal Processing [3]

Introduction; design of analog filters; design of digital filters: (IIR and FIR); structures for the
realization of digital filters; random signals and random processes; linear estimation and prediction;
Wiener filters; DSP processor architecture; DSP algorithms for different applications.

EEE G510 RF Microelectronics [5]

Introduction; application of RF electronics in modern systems; basic concepts in RF circuit design,

active RF components: various RF diodes and transistors and their circuit models, matching and biasing
networks, RF amplifier design: low power, low noise, and broadband amplifiers, RF oscillator design;
negative resistance oscillator; dielectric resonator oscillators, phase noise. RF Mixers: Balanced mixers;
low noise mixers; noise in RF circuits, microwave transmitters, and receivers.

EEE G512 Embedded System Design [3 1 4]

Introduction to embedded systems; embedded architectures: Architectures and programming of

microcontrollers and DSPs. Embedded applications and technologies; power issues in system design;
introduction to software and hardware co-design.

EEE G613 Advanced Digital Signal Processing [5]

Review of stochastic processes, models and model classification, the identification problem, some field
of applications, classical methods of identification of impulse response and transfer function models,
model learning techniques, linear least square estimator, minimum variance algorithm, stochastic
approximation method and maximum likelihood method, simultaneous state and parameter estimation
of extended Kalman-filter, non-linear identification, quasi linearization, numerical identification
methods.

EEE G626 Hardware Software Co-Design [4]

FPGA and ASIC based design, Low-Power Techniques in RT Embedded Systems On-chip networking.
Hardware Software partitioning and scheduling, Co-simulation, synthesis and verifications,
Architecture mapping, HW-SW Interfaces, and Re-configurable computing.

MEL G623 Advanced VLSI Design [5]

Deep submicron device behavior and models, Interconnect modeling for parasitic estimation, Clock
signals and system timing--Digital phase-locked loop design, memory, and array structures,
Input/output circuits design, ASIC technology, FPGA technology, High-speed arithmetic circuits
design,-Parallel prefix computation, Logical effort in circuit design, Low power VLSI circuits-
Adiabatic logic circuits, Multi threshold circuits, Digital BICMOS circuits, Design of VLSI systems.

MEL G625 Advanced Analog and Mixed Signal Design [5]

Mixed-signal blocks and design issues, Design of high-speed comparators, opamps, Design of sample
and hold circuits, Different architectures of analog to digital and digital to analog converters, Design of
CMOS analog multipliers and dividers, Design of switched-capacitor filters, Design of phase-locked
loop, Layout techniques for analog and mixed-signal design, noise issues.

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EEE G572 Digital Signal Processing [3 0 3]

Sampling process, representation of discrete-time signals, use of transforms in signal spectrum analysis,
Fourier transform, fast Fourier transform, Z transform, the realization of filters, recursive and
nonrecursive filters, effects of quantization and finite word length, hardware implementation