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EEEN 5333

Topics covered:

• Lecture 1

  • Overview of VLSI design issues

• Lecture 2

  • Electrical properties of MOS transistors

  • Depletion and enhancement mode

  • Threshold voltage

  • Simple MOSFET fabrication steps (MOSFET Fabraication)

• Lecture 3

  • Transistor operation (MOSFET Operation)

  • Regions of operation

  • Trans. Char. equations, current equations

  • Body effect

• Lecture 4

  • Pinch off region

  • Channel length modulation 

• Lecture 5  (Homework Solutions Hw-2 ,  Hw-3, Hw3b,  Hw-4)

  • Inverter Characteristics

  • Channel resistance

  • Gate capacitance, diffusion capacitance, routing capacitance

  • Gain ratio

• Lecture 6

  • Noise margin

  • Latch up

• Lecture 7

  • Switching Characteristic

    • Fall time

    • Rise time

  • Delays

    • Propagation delay

    • Empirical delay  model

    • Gate delay approximation

    • Body effect and delay

• Lecture 8

  • CMOS process technology 

• Lecture 9

  • CMOS process enhancements

• Lecture 10

  • Deposition and Lithography

• Lecture 11

  • Etching and Implantation

• Lecture 12

  • Delay Analysis for basic gates

• Lecture 13

  • Basic building blocks of  CMOS circuits (CMOS gates demonstration)

  • Homework solutions, Hw5, Hw6, Hw7

• Lecture 14

  • Performance estimation

  • Transistor sizing , Hw7B

• Lecture 15

  • CMOS power dissipation

  • Transmission gates, Hw8A, Hw8B

• Lecture 16

  • Wire model

  • Alternative design techniques (Pseudo nmos, CVSL,  etc.)

• Lecture 17

  • Layout Design, DRC

• Lecture 18

  • VLSI CAD tools

• Lecture 19

  • Technology file set up 

  • Scalable layout design

  • Tapeout and file formats

• Lecture 20 

  • Chip input/output circuits 

  • Pad and power connections

• Lecture 21-22

  • Alternative CMOS gates (Dynamic gates, etc.)

  • (Homework Solutions Hw-10, Hw-11)

• Lecture 23

  • BiCMOS gate design

• Lecture 24-25

  • Design of memory and other programmable devices

• Lecture 26

  • Testing (observability, controllability, BIST)

  Assignments