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EX-803 (C) · VLSI circuits and systems/Official Syllabus

VLSI circuits and systems (EX-803 (C)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLE

  • NMOS and PMOS transistors
  • Process parameters for MOS and CMOS
  • Electrical properties of CMOS circuits and device modeling
  • Scaling principles and fundamental limits
  • CMOS inverter scaling
  • propagation delays
  • Stick diagram
  • Layout diagrams
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Unit 2

COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS

  • Examples of Combinational Logic Design
  • Elmore's constant
  • Pass transistor Logic
  • Transmission gates
  • static and dynamic CMOS design
  • Power dissipation - Low power design principles
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Unit 3

SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS

  • Static and Dynamic Latches and Registers
  • Timing issues
  • pipelines
  • clock strategies
  • Memory architecture and memory control circuits
  • Low power memory circuits
  • Synchronous and Asynchronous design
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Unit 4

DESIGNING ARITHMETIC BUILDING BLOCKS

  • Data path circuits
  • Architectures for ripple carry adders
  • carry look ahead adders
  • High speed adders
  • accumulators
  • Multipliers
  • dividers
  • Barrel shifters
  • speed and area tradeoff
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Unit 5

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES

  • Full custom and Semi custom design
  • Standard cell design and cell libraries
  • FPGA building block architectures
  • FPGA interconnect routing procedures

Reference Books

  • Principles of CMOS VLSI Design — N. Weste, K. Eshraghian
  • CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation — R. Jacob Baker, Harry W. Li, David E. Boyee
  • BASIC VLSI Design — A. Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian
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