VLSI-Digital VLSI Circuit Design

Digital VLSI Circuit Design

Fundamentals

• Logic Styles (NMOS, CMOS, Bipolar, Pseudo-NMOS, Dynamic CMOS, Transmission

Gate, Pass Transistor logic etc.)
Implementation Technologies (Full-Custom design and Semi-Custom design including

• ASIC (MPGA and SBIC), FPLD (CPLD and FPGA) etc.)

• Boolean Logic

• Logic Minimization

 Practical Aspects

• Combinational Logic Design: Adders, Multipliers, Multiplexers, ALUs etc.

• Sequential Logic Design: Registers, Register Files, Counters, Shift Registers, Finite State

          Machines (FSM) etc.

• Memory Design: RAM (SRAM, DRAM), ROM (PROM. EPROM, EEPROM, Flash) etc.

• Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided
• Engineering (CAE) tools
• System-level, Architecture-level, Register Transfer (RT) Level design.  
• High-Level or Behavioral Synthesis/Architecture Description Language (ADL/)Systemon-
  Chip (SOC) Design/Analog and Mixed-Signal (Digital + Analog) Design .
• Computer Architecture (Architecture Level)
• VHDL (or Verilog) Modeling and Synthesis (RT-Level)
• Microprocessor (System-Level)
• Clock Generators and Clock Buffers
• Clock Synchronizers, Clock Managers, Clock Tree Insertion
• Test Synthesis, Fault Analysis, Scan-chain
• Speed (Delay)
• Power Consumption
• Cost
• Reliability
• Logic-Level (Gate-Level), Circuit-Level (Transistor-Level) and Physical Design
  (Mask/Silicon-Level) Design/Layout Synthesis