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Exam 1 Preparation

This document outlines the topics that will be covered on the midterm exam for the 55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design course. It lists over 20 sub-topics within broader topic areas like CMOS gates, fabrication, MOSFET operation, interconnects, power, and combinational circuit design. Students are advised to prepare for exam questions on any of the sub-topics listed.

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Exam 1 Preparation

This document outlines the topics that will be covered on the midterm exam for the 55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design course. It lists over 20 sub-topics within broader topic areas like CMOS gates, fabrication, MOSFET operation, interconnects, power, and combinational circuit design. Students are advised to prepare for exam questions on any of the sub-topics listed.

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55:131

Introduction to VLSI Design


Midterm Exam Preparation

55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design 1


Topics
 CMOS gates
 Inverter, NAND, NOR, compound
 Pull-down, pull-up networks
 Pass transistors, transmission gates, tri-states
 Muxes, latches, flip-flops
 Stick Diagrams
 Bring colored pencils if that would help you
 Tracks, spacing, area estimation

55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design 2


Topics, cont’d
 Fabrication
 Masks
 SiO2
 Polysilicon
 Diffusion
 Contacts
 Wells
 Metallization
 Design Rules
 Yield, Defects
55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design 3
Topics, cont’d
 MOSFET
 MOS Capacitor
 Accumulation, Depletion, Inversion
 Modes of operation: Cutoff, Linear, Saturation
 Shockley Models
 Gate and diffusion capacitance
 I-V characteristics

55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design 4


Topics, cont’d
 Nonideal Transistor Behavior
 High Field Effects
 Channel Length Modulation
 Threshold Voltage Effects
 Leakage
 Process and Environmental Variations

55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design 5


Topics, cont’d
 DC and Transient Response
 Pass Transistors
 DC Response
 Logic Levels and Noise Margins
 Transient Response
 RC Delay Models
 Delay Estimation

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Topics, cont’d
 Logical Effort
 Delay in a Logic Gate
 Multistage Logic Networks
 Choosing the Best Number of Stages

55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design 7


Topics, cont’d
 Interconnect Wires
 Interconnect Modeling
 Wire Resistance
 Wire Capacitance
 Wire RC Delay
 Crosstalk
 Wire Engineering
 Repeaters

55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design 8


Topics, cont’d
 Power
 Power and Energy
 Dynamic Power
 Static Power

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Topics, cont’d
 Combinational Circuit Design
 Bubble Pushing
 Compound Gates
 Input Ordering
 Asymmetric Gates
 Skewed Gates
 Best P/N ratio

55:131 Introduction to VLSI Design 10


Topics, cont’d
 Circuit Families
 Pseudo-nMOS logic
 Dynamic logic
 Pass transistor logic

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