Mahatma Gandhi University

EE 010 606 L02 VLSI Systems
Teaching scheme
2 hours lecture and 2 hours tutorial per week
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Credits:4

Objective:
• To cater the needs of students who want a comprehensive study of the principle
and techniques of modern VLSI Design and Systems.
Module I (10 hours)
Process steps in IC fabrication: Silicon wafer preparation- Czochralski process- Diffusion of
impurities- physical mechanism- Ion implantation- Annealing process- Oxidation processLithography- Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD)- epitaxial growth- reactors- metallizationpatterning- wire bonding and packaging.
Module II (12 hours)
Monolithic components: Isolation of components- junction isolation and dielectric isolation.
Monolithic diodes- schottky diodes and transistors- buried layer- FET structures- JFETMOSFET- PMOS and NMOS, control of threshold voltage (Vth)- silicon gate technologyMonolithic resistors- resistors in diffused regionsMOS resistors- monolithic capacitors- junction and MOS structures- IC crossovers and vias.
Module III (13 hours)
CMOS technology: CMOS structures- Latch up in CMOS. CMOS circuits: combinational
logic circuits:- Inverter-NAND, NOR gates, complex logic circuits, Full adder circuit. CMOS
Transmission Gates (TG)- realization of Boolean functions using TGs. Complementary Pass
Transistor Logic (CPL)- CPL circuits: NAND, NOR gates, 4bit shifter.
Module IV (13 hours)
CMOS sequential logic circuits: SR flip-flop, JK flip-Flop, D latch circuits.
BiCMOS technology- Structure- BiCMOS circuits: Inverter, NAND gate, NOR gate.
CMOS Logic systems- Scaling of MOS structures- scaling factors- effects of miniaturization.
Module V (12 hours)
Gallium Arsenide Technology-:- Crystal structure- Doping process- Channeling effectMESFET. Comparison between Silicon and GaAS technologies.
Introduction to Programmable Logic Arrays (PLA) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(FPGA).

Syllabus - B.Tech. Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engg.

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Text Books

1. N Weste and K Eshrangian, “Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A systems
perspective”, Pearson Education.

2. Jan M Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikolic, “Digital
Integrated Circuits – A Design Perspective, Prentice Hall
Reference Books

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S M Sze, VLSI technology, Me Graw Hill.
Douglas Pucknell, Basic VLSI design, PHI.
S.M.Kang & Y.Leblebici,CMOS digital integrated circuits, Mcgraw Hill.
K R Botkar, Integrated Circuits , Khanna Pub.

Syllabus - B.Tech. Applied Electronics & Instrumentation Engg.