EE 6325: VLSI DESIGN

Spring 2005 TR 3:30pm – 4:45pm ECSS 2.412

Instructor: Poras T. Balsara TA: to be announced

(972) 883-2557, poras@utdallas.edu
Office Hrs: TR 2:00pm – 3:15pm or by appointment
Room ECSN 4.928 / 4.612
http://www.utdallas.edu/~poras/courses/ee6325/

● Course Overview

Introduction to MOS transistor, equations for voltage, current, etc. Details of CMOS
inverter, transmission gates. Design of complex CMOS gates; combinational and
sequential design techniques in VLSI; issues in static, transmission gate, and dynamic
logic design. Subsystem design: adders, multipliers, memory and I/O circuits. Clocking
and clock distribution. Introduction to low power design. Design for testability. CMOS
technology, and rationale behind various design rules. Use of CAD tools to layout, check
and simulate some basic circuits. Design, layout and simulation of a small full-custom
project.

Prerequisites: EE 3320 and proficiency in using Unix platforms.

● Course Material

o Text Book:
o J. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan and B. Nikolic: Digital Integrated Circuits: A
Design Perspective, Second Edition, 2003. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs,
New Jersey 07632.

o References:
o N. Weste and K. Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, Addison
Wesley.

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● Tentative List of Topics (with Section #s from Rabaey’s text book)

No. Lecture Topic Section #

1 Course Overview, Introduction to VLSI 1.1-3 (self-study)
2 Basic CMOS logic gates and layout A,2.3,ref. 1.3-6
3 CAD tools introduction
4 MOS transistor theory 3.3
5 CMOS inverter 5.1-2
6 Other CMOS characteristics 5.3
7 Parasitics estimation 4.3,5.4
8 Delay, power estimation 4.4,5.4-5,9.2-3
9 Gate design, device sizing, etc. 5.4-5,6.2.1,9.2-3
10 Combinational logic 6.1-2
11 Static combinational logic 6.2.1
12 Pseudo NMOS, PLA design 6.2.2,8.5
13 TGL, CPL, DPL gates 6.2.3
14 Dynamic combinational logic 6.3
15 Sequential logic 7.1,7.2.1
16 Static sequential circuits 7.2
17 Dynamic sequential circuits 7.3-4,7.6
18 Pipelining 7.5
19 Adders \& Shifters 11.3,11.5
20 Multipliers 11.4
21 Memory design 12.1,12.2.1,12.2.3,12.3
22 Input/Output circuits ref. 5.6
23 Clocking and timing issues 10.1,10.3-4
24 Intro. to low power design – dynamic power 5.5,11.7
25 Intro. to low power design – leakage power 5.5
26 Intro. to design for testability H.3
27 VLSI design styles 8.
28 Technology scaling 3.5

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