Design and Analysis of VLSI Systems

What you’ll study

Introduction to MOS technology — PMOS, NMOS and CMOS transistors and CMOS fabrication. Design approaches — fabrication steps, stick diagrams, design rules and layout, contact cuts and the double-metal MOS process. Delay analysis — inverter delay and the delay of sequential and combinational circuits. Sequential systems — super-buffers, dynamic MOS circuits, the scaling of MOS circuits and scaling factors; subsystem design and layout. Switch logic — pass transistors and transmission gates. Gate logic — the inverter, two-input nMOS, CMOS and BiCMOS gate design, parity generators, multiplexers, registers, counters and one- and three-transistor dynamic RAM cells. A hierarchical view of VLSI system design — behavioural description, high-level synthesis, scheduling, allocation and datapath synthesis. Logic synthesis — multilevel minimization, PLA reduction, the synthesis of finite state machines, layout synthesis, placement and routing, and the testing of VLSI. An introduction to reversible logic and to FPGA programming with VHDL.