Modern VLSI Design (February 2024)

• Modern VLSI Design
• Second Semester AY 2023-2024
  • Synchronous classes will be held Tuesdays 6:30-8:30 PM from 20 Feb 2024 - 21 May 2024
  • Refer to the UP Diliman Academic Calendar for relevant dates and holidays.
• Course Credit: 3 units (2 units lecture, 1 unit lab)

Catalog Description

Digital systems and VLSI. Transistors and layout. Logic functions. Combinational logic networks. Sequential machines. Systems architecture design and HDLs. Subsystem design and IP components. CAD systems and algorithms.

Prerequisite: Switching Theory and Digital Logic Design

Course Outline

Module	Date	Topic	Resources	Activity
1	25 Sep 2023	Introduction	[video]	Activity 1
2	02 Oct 2023	MOS Transistor and Technology Scaling	[video]	Installing the Tools
3	09 Oct 2023	CMOS Inverter and Delay models	[Inverter]	Activity 3
	12-18 Oct 2023	Reading Break
4	23 Oct 2023	CMOS Gates and Logical Effort	[CMOS Gates] [Logical Effort]	CMOS Gates Exercise
	30 Oct 2023	Declared Non-working Holiday
5	6 Nov 2023	Variability	[pre-recorded video] [Security]
6	13 Nov 2023	Low power design techniques	[Power video] [Energy video]	Lab Exercise on Variability
7	20 Nov 2023	Timing	[video]	Activity 7
	27 Nov 2023	Declared Holiday
8	4 Dec 2023	Memory Design	[video]	Lab Exercise on Memory
9	11 Dec 2023	Subthreshold Memory
10	18 Dec 2023	One-on-one project discussions
	8 Jan 2024	Finals

References

• review of semiconductor fundamentals [EEE 41]

• review of transistors and transistor circuits [EEE 51]

• Boom References
  • S. Brown and Z. Vranesic, Fundamentals of Digital Logic with Verilog Design, 3rd ed., McGraw Hill: New York, 2014
  • M. Bushnell and V. Agrawal, Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed Signal VLSI Circuits, Springer: Boston, 2002
  • M. Keating, D. Flynn, R. Aitken, A. Gibbons, K. Shi, Low Power Methodology Manual (For System-on-Chip Design), Springer, 2007
  • J. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, B. Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, Second edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.
  • N. Weste, D. Harris, CMOS VLSI Design (A Circuits and Systems Perspective), Addison-Wesley, 2005
  • W. Wolf, Modern VLSI Design: IP-Based Design, Fourth edition, Pearson Education Inc., 2009

• Other References