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VLSI Design: MOSFETs and Circuits Overview

The document outlines a course on MOSFET and CMOS VLSI design. It covers MOSFET fabrication and modeling, MOS inverters and capacitors, symbolic and physical layout systems, combinational and sequential logic circuits, dynamic logic circuits, and CMOS subsystem design. Recommended textbooks and references are also provided. The course will review MOS physics and why MOSFETs are used. It will cover the VLSI design flow and styles including gate array, FPGA, standard cell and full custom design. CAD tools, full custom design process, and MOSFET fabrication will also be discussed.

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VLSI Design: MOSFETs and Circuits Overview

The document outlines a course on MOSFET and CMOS VLSI design. It covers MOSFET fabrication and modeling, MOS inverters and capacitors, symbolic and physical layout systems, combinational and sequential logic circuits, dynamic logic circuits, and CMOS subsystem design. Recommended textbooks and references are also provided. The course will review MOS physics and why MOSFETs are used. It will cover the VLSI design flow and styles including gate array, FPGA, standard cell and full custom design. CAD tools, full custom design process, and MOSFET fabrication will also be discussed.

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Course Outline:
• Introduction to MOSFET: fabrication and Modeling.

• MOS Inverter : Static and switching characteristics, MOS


Capacitor, Resistively of various layers.

• Symbolic and Physical Layout system : MOS Layout Stick/


Layout diagrams, Issues of scaling.

• Combinational MOS Logic Circuits : Pass Transistor / TGs,


primitive Logic gates, Complex logic gates.

• Sequential MOS Logic Design : Latches and Flip-Flops.


 • Dynamic Logic Circuit : Clocking Issues.
• CMOS Subsystem Design : case Studies.
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TEXT BOOKS:
1. Kang & Leblebigi “CMOS Digital IC Circuit Analysis &
Design”- McGraw Hill, 2003.

References:
• Rabaey, “Digital Integrated Circuits Design”, Pearson
Education, Second Edition, 2003.
• D A Pucknell and K Eshraghian “Basic VLSI Design” –
Prentice-Hall, 2006.
• Weste and Eshraghian, “Principles of CMOS VLSI design”
Addison-Wesley, 2002.
 

• Additional reading from selected journals / papers.


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Many disciplines have contributed to the


current state of art in VLSI design:

• Solid-state physics.
• Materials science.
• Lithography and fab.
• Device modeling.

• Architecture.
• Algorithms.
  • CAD tools.
• Circuit design & layout.
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Lets get started…

• We will review (learn for first time?) MOS


physics.

• Why MOSFET’s?
– CMOS circuits dissipate power only when switching
(they do use power when not switching, but is much
less than other circuits).
 

– This allows for more circuits to be placed on one die.


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VLSI Design Flow

Definitions and Terminology:

• Abstraction; refinement.

• Synthesis; analysis; optimization.

• Extraction ; generation.

Design process traverses iteratively among three


 

domains shown in Gajski Y chart.


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Abstraction

Extraction

Refinement

Generation

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SIMPLIFIED VLSI DESIGN FLOW VIEW IN
THREE DOMAINS

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VLSI Chip Design Styles

• Gate Array Technology, FPGA.

• Standard Cell Design Technology.

• Full Custom Mask Design.

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FULL CUSTOM DESIGN

• Complete fabrication process.


• Manual design.
• Total flexibility, only limited by layout
rules.
• Very High Development Cost – Smallest
Die area.
Features:

• Long design and fabrication time.


• Efficient use of silicon area.
• Cheap only at highest quantities.
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CAD Technology

• High level Synthesis.


• Logic Synthesis.
• Circuit Optimization.
• Layout.
• Simulation.
• DRC.
• Formal Verification.

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Next Topic: Fabrication of MOSFET

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