VLSI Design

Course Description

VLSI design introduces students to fabrication and layout techniques necessary to design large scale systems. Specific topics include: CMOS logic, MOSFET theory, layout design rules including all the factors required for an effective circuit design. Advanced topics include: capacitance requirements, clocking, and power consumption, circuit simulation and performance estimation.

Learning Outcomes

• Design logic circuit layouts for CMOS circuits.
• Extract the analog parasitic elements using a simulator.
• Build a cell library to be used by other chip designers.
• Insert elementary testing hardware into the VLSI chip.
• Analyze VLSI circuit timing using Logical Effort analysis.
• Design elementary data paths for microprocessors, including moderate-speed adders, subtracters, and multipliers.
• Estimate the power consumption of a VLSI chip.
• Assemble an entire chip.
• explain the chip technology scaling process.

Prerequisites

• CEE430