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Lecturer: Dr P. Robinson
(pr@cl.cam.ac.uk)
No. of lectures + examples classes: 12 + 4
Prerequisite courses: Digital Electronics, Structured Hardware
Design, ECAD, Computer Design
Aims
This course will introduce the design of very large scale integrated
circuits. The material develops an understanding of the whole
spectrum from semiconductor physics through transistor-level design
and system design to architecture, and promotes the associated tools
for computer aided design.
Lectures
- Transistor design.
Simple logic. MOS layers, stick diagrams. Layout
of an inverter. Transmission gates and pass transistor logic.
- Combinatorial logic.
NOR and NAND in nMOS and CMOS. Compound gates. Delays.
- Logic design.
Stereotyped design and PLAs.
- System design.
Clocking and registers. Storage elements and sequential
machines. Dynamic logic.
- Memory design.
- Building blocks. Shifters, adders, ALUs.
- Computer-aided design.
Fabrication. Design rules and lambda rules. Performance and
large loads. Scaling.
- Semi-custom techniques. Gate arrays, standard cell, full
custom.
- Self-timed circuits.
Objectives
On completing the course, students should be able to
- describe the structure and operation of an MOS transistor;
design simple logic in CMOS;
compare different designs as circuits, stick diagrams and layout;
explain gate matrix and PLA design in CMOS
- apply clocked design for dynamic logic and storage;
discuss different approaches to the design of memory
- describe the modules making up a processor
- explain the fabrication process and analyse its implications;
compare different approaches to the implementation of systems;
discuss the relevance and design of self-timed circuits
Recommended books
Augarten, S. (1983). State of the Art: a photographic history of the
integrated circuit. Ticknor and Fields.
Mavor, J., Jack, M.A. & Denyer, P.B. (1983). Introduction to MOS
LSI Design. Addison-Wesley.
Mead, C. & Conway, L. (1980). Introduction to VLSI Systems.
Addison-Wesley.
Russell, G., Kinniment, D.J., Chester, E.G. & McLauchlan, M.R. (ed.)
(1985). CAD for VLSI. Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Weste, N.H.E. & Eshraghian, K. (1993). Principles of CMOS VLSI
Design: A Systems Perspective. Addison-Wesley (2nd ed.).
Wolf, W. (1994). Modern VLSI Design - A System Approach.
Prentice-Hall.
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Christine Northeast
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