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ECE 520

VLSI Design

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Course Description:

This course is an introduction to the design of very large scale integration (VLSI) circuits. Advanced topics includes: IC technology, CAD tools, layout, design rules, CMOS circuit characterization and performance estimation, standard cells and full custom designs, architectures for VLSI, and timing verification. The main objective of this course is to provide the student with the capability of designing VLSI circuits.

Textbook:

J. M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan and B. Nikolic, "Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective", 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, New York, NY, 2003.

Prerequisite:

ECE 322

Coordinator:

Payman Zarkesh-Ha

Topics:

• Basic MOS Physics
• Device Scaling Issues
• Static and Dynamic Behaviors of CMOS Inverter
• CMOS Manufacturing Process
• Interconnect Manufacturing & Modeling
• Layout Techniques
• Combinational Static Logic
• Gate Sizing and Logical Effort
• Pseudo Logic and Pass-Transistor Logic
• Dynamic Logic
• Sequential Logic
• Timing Analysis
• Clock Distributions and PLLs
• Power Distribution & I/O Circuits
• Nonvolatile Memories, SRAM and DRAM
  

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Prepared by Payman Zarkesh-Ha, payman@ece.unm.edu,