This is a most fundamental Digital Circuit Design course for pursing a major in VLSI. We do not deal with any Verilog coding during this course and instead discuss transistor level circuit design concepts in great detail. Over learning objectives of this course are:Characterize the key delay quantities of a standard cellEvaluate power dissipated in a circuit (dynamic and leakage)Design a circuit to perform a certain functionality with specified speedIdentify the critical path of a combinational circuitConvert the combinational block to pipelined circuitCalculate the maximum (worst case) operating frequency of the designed circuitINTENDED AUDIENCE : Any student interested in Circuit Design as applied to VLSI DesignPREREQUISITES : A course on digital logic design is a must for doing this course. INDUSTRY SUPPORT : All VLSI Design companies<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1: The CMOS Inverter construction and Voltage Transfer Characteristics Week 2: Resistance and Capacitance and transient response. Week 3: Dynamic, Short Circuit and Leakage power – Stacking Effect Week 4: Combinational Circuit Design and capacitance Week 5: Parasitic Delay, Logical Effort and Electrical Effort Week 6: Gate sizing and Buffering Week 7: Asymmetric gate, Skewed gates, Ratio’ed logic Week 8: Dynamic Gates and Domino logic and Static Timing Analysis Week 9: Sequential circuits and feedback. Various D flip flop circuits – Static and Dynamic Week 10:Setup and Hold Time measurement. Timing analysis of latch/ flop based systems Week 11:Adders – Mirror adder, Carry Skip adder, Carry Select adder, Square Root adder Week 12:Multipliers – Signed and Unsigned arithmetic, Carry Save Multiplier implementation
Taught by
Prof. Janakiraman
