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Vlsi System Design

This document provides information about the VLSI System Design course taught by Dr. Noor Mahammad Sk. It includes the course schedule, evaluation policy, prerequisites, content topics, reference books, and an introduction to VLSI design. The course meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays and has practice sessions on Wednesdays and Fridays. Students are evaluated based on internal exams, quizzes, assignments, and an end-semester exam. The course requires knowledge of semiconductor physics and digital logic design. Course content includes CMOS transistors, fabrication, design partitioning, and methodology tools.

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Vlsi System Design

This document provides information about the VLSI System Design course taught by Dr. Noor Mahammad Sk. It includes the course schedule, evaluation policy, prerequisites, content topics, reference books, and an introduction to VLSI design. The course meets on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays and has practice sessions on Wednesdays and Fridays. Students are evaluated based on internal exams, quizzes, assignments, and an end-semester exam. The course requires knowledge of semiconductor physics and digital logic design. Course content includes CMOS transistors, fabrication, design partitioning, and methodology tools.

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VLSI SYSTEM DESIGN

Noor Mahammad Sk
Course
• Monday – 1000 Hrs @H13
• Tuesday – 0900 Hrs @H13
• Friday – 1200 Hrs @H13

• Practice @L209
• COE - Wednesday 0900 to 1200 Hrs
• CED - Friday 0900 to 1200 Hrs
Course Evaluation Policy
• Internal Exam – 40% Weightage
• Quiz1 – 20 Marks
• Quiz2 – 20 Marks
• External Exam – 60% Weightage
• Assignments – 20 Marks
• End-Semester Exam – 40 Marks
Pre-requisites
• Semiconductor Physics
• Digital Logic Design concepts
Course Content
• MOS Transistors and CMOS logic
• CMOS Fabrication and Layout
• Design Partitioning
• Design Abstraction
• Technology Related CAD Issues
• Delay and Power
• Robustness
• Datapath Subsystem
• Design Methodology and Tools
• Testing, Debugging and Verification
• CMOs Chip Design Options
• Static Timing Analysis
Reference Text Books
• Weste and Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design,
Addison Wesley, 4Th Edison 2011.
• Geiger R L, Allen and Strader, VLSI Design Techniques
for Analog and Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1990.
• Wolf W, Modern VLSI Design, Pearson Education
Publishers, 1997.
Introduction to VLSI
Design
Dr Noor Mahammad Sk
The Babbage Difference Machine
• In 1832
The First Electronic Computer
• In 1946 (ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator And
Computer)
• They were programmed by setting switches or plugboards
similar to early telephone switchboards for each run
Invention of the Transistor
• Vacuum tubes ruled in first half of 20th century Large,
expensive, power-hungry, unreliable
• 1947: first point contact transistor
• John Bardeen and Walter Brattain at Bell Labs

http://101science.com/transistor.htm
Prediction about Home PC in 1954
• Scientist from the RAND Corporation have created this model to
illustrates how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004.
Super Computer
Modern day Computers
Bread Board Design
• What are the difficulties that you find in the circuit design
using the bread boards??
• What you are looking for?
Integrated Circuit
• Why IC?
• What are the Advantages?
• How it can be designed?
• What factors motivated to one to go for ICs?
Key Parameter of any circuit Design
• Frequency (Delay)
• Complexity of inter connections of components
• Power Consumption
• Heat Dissipation
• Efficient Design (Optimized)
• Verification of Design
• Testing the circuit after implementation
Integrated Circuits
• Collection of components on a single die or on single
wafer
• Components may be logic gates or transistors or macro-
blocks
Die
Integrated Circuit
History of Integration
• Small-Scale Integration (SSI, ~10 gates per chip, 60’s),
• Medium Scale Integration (MSI, ~100–1000 gates per
chip, 70’s),
• Large-Scale Integration (LSI, ~1000–10,000 gates per
chip, 80’s),
• Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI, ~10,000–1,00,000
gates per chip, 90’s),
• Ultra Large Scale Integration (ULSI, ~1M–10M gates
per chip)
How does a microprocessor look?
Circuits Design: Abstraction Levels
Digital Circuits: Logic to Device
Moore's Law
• #Transistors on a given area doubles every 18 Months

Gordon E. Moore

Source: Intel
Power Density in Processors

Source: Intel
History of Technology
• Bipolar Technology
• Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL)
• Metal Oxide Silicon (MOS)
• Difficult to make metal gate n-channel MOS (nMOS or NMOS)
• Complementary MOS (CMOS)
• Greatly reduced power
Semiconductor Applications
• 3C: Computer/ Communication/ Consumables
• Computer: Desktop Computer/ Notebook
• Communication: ADSL/ Cable Modem/ Bluetooth/ VoIP
• Consumables: Game/ DVD/ Digital Camera
Types of Chips
• DRAMs: serves as a primary memory for computers
• Microprocessors
• ASICs
• DSP Processors
• Programmable Memory Chips
THANK YOU!!
Dr Noor Mahammad Sk

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