EC 1461 VLSI DESIGN SYLLABUS ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING

ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI: CHENNAI – 600 025
B.E DEGREE PROGRAMME :ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING
(Offered in Colleges affiliated to Anna University)
CURRICULUM AND SYLLABUS – REGULATIONS – 2004
SEMESTER VIII/08

EC 1461 VLSI DESIGN

AIM
To introduce the technology & concepts of VLSI.

OBJECTIVES
i. To introduce MOS theory / Manufacturing Technology.
ii. To study inverter / counter logic / stick / machine diagram / sequential circuits.
iii. To study address / memory / arithmetic circuits.
iv. To introduce FPGA architecture / principles / system design.
v. To get familiarised with VHDL programming behavioural/Structural/concurrent/ process.

1. BASIC MOS TRANSISTOR 9
Enhancement mode & Depletion mode – Fabrication (NMOS, PMOS, CMOS, BiCMOS) Technology – NMOS transistor current equation – Second order effects – MOS Transistor Model.

2. NMOS & CMOS INVERTER AND GATES 9
NMOS & CMOS inverter – Determination of pull up / pull down ratios – Stick diagram – lamda based rules – Super buffers – BiCMOS & steering logic.

3. SUB SYSTEM DESIGN & LAYOUT 9
Structured design of combinational circuits – Dynamic CMOS & clocking – Tally circuits – (NAND-NAND, NOR-NOR and AOI logic) – EXOR structure – Multiplexer structures – Barrel shifter.

4. DESIGN OF COMBINATIONAL ELEMENTS & REGULAR ARRAY LOGIC 9
NMOS PLA – Programmable Logic Devices - Finite State Machine PLA – Introduction to FPGA.

5. VHDL PROGRAMMING 9
RTL Design – Combinational logic – Types – Operators – Packages – Sequential circuit – Sub-programs – Test benches. (Examples: address, counters, flipflops, FSM, Multiplexers / Demltiplexers).

L = 45 Total = 45

TEXT BOOKS

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1. D.A.Pucknell, K.Eshraghian, ‘Basic VLSI Design’, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2003.
2. Eugene D.Fabricius, ‘Introduction to VLSI Design’, Tata McGraw Hill, 1990.

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. N.H.Weste, ‘Principles of CMOS VLSI Design’, Pearson Eduction, India, 2002.
2. Charles H.Roth, ‘Fundamentals of Logic Design’, Jaico Publishing House, 1992.
3. Zainalatsedin Navabi, ‘VHDL Analysis and Modelling of Digital Systems’, 2nd Edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 1998.
4. Douglas Perry, ‘VHDL Programming by example’, Tata McGraw Hill, 3rd Edition, 2003.