VLSI Design

VLSI Design flow, general design methodologies; critical path and worst-case timing analysis, overview of design hierarchy, layers of abstraction, integration density and Moore's law, VLSI design styles, packaging, CMOS Logic, Propagation Delay definitions, sheet resistance.

Resistance, Inductance, and Capacitance, skin effect and its influence, lumped RC Model, the distributed RC Model, transient Response, RC delay model, Linear Delay Model, Logical Effort of Paths, Scaling.

steady-state behavior of dynamic gate circuits, noise considerations in dynamic design, charge sharing, cascading dynamic gates, domino logic, np-CMOS logic, problems in single-phase clocking, two-phase non-overlapping clocking scheme, Sequential CMOS Logic Circuits, Layout design.

Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAM), Static RAM, non-volatile memories, flash memories, Pipeline Architecture. Low – Power CMOS Logic Circuits: Introduction, Overview of Power Consumption, Low – Power Design through voltage scaling,

Faults in digital circuits. Modeling of faults, Functional Modeling at the Logic Level, Functional Modeling at the Register, Structural Model and Level of Modeling. Design for Testability, Ad Hoc Design for Testability Techniques, Controllability and Observability, Introduction to Built-in-self-test (BIST) Concept.