• Introduction to CMOS circuits (VLSI, MOS, CMOS, BiCMOS). CMOS logic (inverter,
NOR, NAND, Compound gates), multiplexers, memory, registers. Circuit
representations.
• MOS transistor theory, MOS device equations, CMOS inverter, SPICE simulation.
• Silicon Semiconductor processing technology, basic CMOS technology,
interconnect, circuit elements (capacitors, resistors), layout design rules,
Latchup.
• Circuit characterization and performance estimation, resistance-capacitance-
inductance estimation
• Switching characteristics, delay models, transistor sizing
• Power dissipation, sizing routing conductors, charge sharing, design margining,
process variations and yield
• CMOS circuit physical and logic design (inerter, NOR, NAND, NOR, XOR, complex
logic gates layout)
• Transmission gate layout, Dynamic logic, clocking systems, input-output
structures, overall organization of the physical design-Low power design.
• Laboratories: Design-simulation software, CMOS custom design examples
(inverter, NAND, NOR, XOR, complex logic gates, dynamic logic and memories)
• VHDL design techniques for PLDs, simulation and implementation. In particular:
◦ Technologies of PLDs
◦ circuit design
◦ Synthesis, design levels of abstraction, simulation.
◦ XILINX ISE Design Suite.
◦ An Introduction to VHDL:
-- entities, architecture, operators, simulation examples of logic gates and Boole functions
-- concurrent VHDL: signals, delays, objects, classes, data types, concurrent statements, operators
-- sequential VHDL: signals and variables, processes, components, statements
-- Libraries, subprograms, functions, procedures, packages, attributes
-- Structural VHDL: component, port map, generic map, configuration, Examples.
