CT76 Microelectronics and
VLSI Design
Introduction
Review of
Digital Systems
(1 hrs)
Introduction to VLSI design: Fundamentals of transistors : BJT & FET (
1 hrs)
Introduction
to MOS Circuits: NMOS, PMOS, CMOS, and BiCMOS devices, GaAs
technology
(1 hrs)
Fabrication and Processing Technology
Wafer
preparation
(1 hrs)
Epitaxial growth
(1
hrs)
Oxidation
(1 hrs)
Photo-lithography
(1 hrs)
Diffusion
(1 hrs)
Ion-Implementation
(1 hrs)
Metallization
(1 hrs)
MOS
Transistor theory, V-I characteristics
(2 hrs)
Design and
detailed analysis of MOS inverters, enhancement load, and depletion load
(2 hrs)
CMOS
inverter, delay and power analysis (2 hrs)
Design layout
of simple CMOS gates
(2 hrs.)
Operational
amplifier design (OPAMP)
(1 hrs)
Differential
amplifier and Analog filters.
(1 hrs)
Circuit
implementation of combinational and sequential circuits (3 hrs)
Memory system
design
(2 hrs)
Low-Power
CMOS Logic Circuits
(1 hrs)
Simulation
System
simulation using HDL, specification of VHDL, constructs, behavioral,
structural, data flow, description. (4
hrs)
Performance Estimation
Transistor
Physics – Accumulation, Depletion, Inversion (1 hrs)
Threshold
Voltage, V-I Characteristics, Body Effect, Noise Margin, Latch-up Resistance,
Switching Characteristics, Power Consumption; Yield (3 hrs)
Scaling of
MOS Transistor Dimensions.
(2 hrs)
Digital logic
design- optimization of combinational logic, synchronous sequential logic
design- Mealy & Moore machine.
(3 hrs)
Basics of
VLSI Testing process and Fault Modeling
(1 hrs)
Future trends
Introduction
to System on a Chip. Trends in VLSI technology. (1 hrs)
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