BITS Pilani
Pilani Campus
MEL G 621
VLSI Design
Dr. Nitin Chaturvedi
Assistant Professor, Department of EEE
BITS-Pilani, Pilani campus
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1. What should we study with this course ?
2. What is the need for this course/Why should we do this ?
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Outline
1. Introduction
2. Course Plan
3. Text Books
4. Reference Books
5. Evaluation Schedule
6. Design Assignments
7. Make-up Policy
8. Required EDA- Tools
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What is VLSI design?
A way to design electronic circuits
Dimensionally –micron, submicron, nano range
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Why VLSI imp?
Current day technology
Micro electronics creeping in all disciplines--- (merger of various
disciplines in system design)
Bio medical/ health—brain mapping, artificial intelligence
Electromechanical systems—robotics
Communication
Smart and secure homes
Identification, vehicular electronics, process control
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Why VLSI Design ?
High Integration Density
Fast changing technology (digital)
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VLSI Products
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Motivation for VLSI Design
Implementation basis for modern computing devices
Constructing large systems from these small components(device)
System on Chip (SOC)
Furthering our understanding of computation at circuit level
Career Opportunities
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Motivation for Digital VLSI Design
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Course Plan
VLSI Design Methodologies
MOS characteristics
Introduction: Issues in digital design
The CMOS inverter
Combinational logic structures
Sequential logic gates
Dynamic circuits
Interconnect: R, L and C
Timing
Arithmetic building blocks
Memories and array structuresI
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Books
Text Book:
– Essential of VLSI Circuits and Systems Essential of VLSI
Circuits and Systems Author: Kamaran Esharaghian, Dauglas
A, Puecknell Sholen Eshraghian Publisher: PHI.2009
– CMOS Digital Integrated Circuit, Analysis and Design,
Sung-Mo Kang and Yusuf Leblebici, Publisher: McGraw-
Hill Companies, Inc.2003
Reference Books:
– Digital Integrated Circuits, A Design Perspective, Jan M
Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic, 2nd
edition, Prentice Hall, 2005.
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Evaluation Scheme
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VLSI Labs
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Lab/Design Assignment
Lab Assignments: Regular Design Assignments
Design Assignments: Sub-System Design Assignments
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EDA-Tools
Spice
– Cadence
– Mentor
– Synopsys
DRC
LVS
PEX
Post-layout simulation
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Make-up policy
No-make for assignments
Mid-Semester: Make-up will be given only in the case of
hospitalization (proof)
No-make for attending marriages………..etc
Comprehensive Exam: Make-up will be given only in the case
of hospitalization (proof)
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Chamber consultation hour
Monday 5pm-6pm
Fix up an appointment by sending email
Chamber: EEE-219-F
or
Olab-Server Room
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Pre-requisite courses
Digital Electronics
Electronic Devices
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Course Objective
Learn to design and analyze state-of-the-art digital VLSI circuits
using CMOS technology
Understand design issues at the layout, transistor, logic and
register-transfer levels
Performance analysis and optimization
Use commercial design software in the lab
Complexity management
Understand the complete design flow
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Discrete vs Integrated Circuit
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VLSI technological growth
Based on:
– Feature size
– Gate count of a chip
– Transistor count of a chip
– Operating frequency of a Chip
– Power consumption of a Chip
– Size of a device used in chip
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Course Plans
Text Book:
– Essential of VLSI Circuits and Systems Essential of VLSI
Circuits and Systems Author: Kamaran Esharaghian, Dauglas
A, Puecknell Sholen Eshraghian Publisher: PHI.2009
– CMOS Digital Integrated Circuit, Analysis and Design,
Sung-Mo Kang and Yusuf Leblebici, Publisher: McGraw-
Hill Companies, Inc.2003
Reference Books:
– Digital Integrated Circuits, A Design Perspective, Jan M
Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic, 2nd
edition, Prentice Hall, 2005.
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