Lectures

Introduction

• Introduction to integrated circuits
• Properties of digital design

MOS Devices

• MOS transistor and interconnect topology
• pn-junction - diode
• MOS transistor, detailed explanation, operating modes (equations and transistor diagrams),
• Parasitic resistors and capacitors
• Short channel devices
• Secondary effects
• Technology scaling

Mask Layout and Transistor Modeling

• Spice models and parameters
• Design rules
• Review of fabrication technology

Wire

• Interconnect parameters
• Electrical wire models

MOS Inverter

• Ratioed logic
• Complementary (CMOS) logic
• Propagation delay

Power Consumption

• Power consumption in static CMOS
• Simulation example
• Modeling

Circuit Design Combinatorial

• Basics in combinatorial logic
• Static, conventional
• Dynamic, including operation principles, secondary effects, domino logic and PN logic

 Circuit Design Sequential

• Basics in sequential logic
• Classification, latch and register
• Bi-stability
• Register-based latches, clock issues
• Dynamic latches and registers, C2MOS and TSPC
• Non-bistable sequential circuits 

Implementation Strategies for Digital ICs

• Introduction
• Custom design
• Cell based design
• Array based

 
Homework

Literature with additional course topics is provided and questions to these topics are to be answered.

Homework on synchronous design:
Clocks, clock skew, clock jitter and clock distribution techniques.