Anna University 2013 Regulation Syllabus - EC6601 VLSI Design - Download

UNIT I MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLE 9

NMOS and PMOS transistors, Process parameters for MOS and CMOS, Electrical properties of CMOS circuits and device modeling, Scaling principles and fundamental limits, CMOS inverter scaling, propagation delays, Stick diagram, Layout diagrams 

UNIT II COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS 9

Examples of Combinational Logic Design, Elmore‟s constant, Pass transistor Logic, Transmission gates, static and dynamic CMOS design, Power dissipation – Low power design principles 

UNIT III SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS 9 

Static and Dynamic Latches and Registers, Timing issues, pipelines, clock strategies, Memory architecture and memory control circuits, Low power memory circuits, Synchronous and Asynchronous design 

UNIT IV DESIGNING ARITHMETIC BUILDING BLOCKS 9 

Data path circuits, Architectures for ripple carry adders, carry look ahead adders, High speed adders, accumulators, Multipliers, dividers, Barrel shifters, speed and area tradeoff 

UNIT V IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES 9 

Full custom and Semi custom design, Standard cell design and cell libraries, FPGA building block architectures, FPGA interconnect routing procedures.