Department Notes:
Course objectives: This course covers the electrical characteristics of digital integrated circuits. Students will learn how to find the logic levels, noise margins, power consumption, and propagation delays of digital integrated circuits based on scaled CMOS technologies.
Topics covered:
- Design metrics: delay, power, cost robustness.
- Operation and modeling of CMOS Devices
- Device current-voltage characteristics for manual and SPICE analysis
- Circuit simulation, SPICE
- Static CMOS inverter: voltage-transfer characteristics
- Advanced device parameters, process variations and scaling
- Layout design rules
- Layout editing, Cadence Virtuoso
- Schematic entry, Cadence Analog Artist
- CMOS Inverter: Dynamic behavior, equivalent resistances, propagation delay
- MOS transistor capacitances
- IC interconnect
- Interconnect capacitance and resistance
- Circuit extraction, checking
- Standard complementary CMOS combinatorial logic gates
- Propagation delay, capacitance, voltage dependence
- Optimization for speed, method of logical effort
- Standard and datapath cells, Euler diagrams
- Ratioed logic, pseudo-NMOS logic
- Pass-transistor logic
- Dynamic and domino logic styles
- Sequential logic: Flip-flops, latches, registers, multivibrators
- Clocking and timing
- Clock distribution, timing analysis
- Driving interconnect, buffer design
- Digital building blocks: Adders, multipliers, shifters
- Memory design
- SRAM DRAM Flash
- Course project: 64x32 SRAM block design. A large (14,000 transistor) circuit block is designed for minimum area and delay while meeting a set of defined constraints (noise margins and capacitances)
- Logic gates: hardware laboratory
Related Areas: Integrated Circuits (INC)