This course aims at providing a thorough knowledge of physical constraints and limitations at transistor and interconnect level in the design of digital integrated circuits which is important to understand for both full-custom and high level digital ASIC designers. The course is based on extensive problem solving and analysis, simulation and design of digital integrated circuits in CMOS technologies in CAD/EDA environment.

At the end of the course, the passing students must be able to,

• Describe the influence of varying intrinsic/extrinsic physical model parameters of MOSFET in a digital gate/circuit with respect to dynamic behavior, propagation delay, power/energy consumption and area
• Analyze and implement
  • digital gates and sequential circuits for different logic style/topologies using the CMOS technologies and
  • electrical wire/interconnect parasitic models
• Describe arithmetic building blocks (adders, multipliers, shifters) based on basic digital functions and analyze power/ speed trade-offs in data-path structures which use sequential circuits as well
• Demonstrate digital circuit design using EDA/CAD tools for schematic capture, spice simulation and layout

• A review of MOSFET manufacturing process and basic design rules for layout
• Device models for hand-analysis and spice simulations of diode and MOSFET
• Static and dynamic behavior of inverter
• Design of combinational logic gates using static and dynamic logic families
• Design of static and dynamic latches/registers, pulse/sense-amplifier based register circuits
• Understanding capacitive, resistive and inductive parasitic and transmission line effects in electrical wire/interconnect models
• Timing issues in synchronous/asynchronous digital circuits and clock tree structures
• Design of digital arithmetic blocks for data-path structures in digital processors using elementary logic functions
• Digital ASIC implementation strategies from logic synthesis to layout
• Performance analysis such as power/energy consumption, silicon area and speed

Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic, "Digital Integrated Circuits", Prentice Hall, Second Edition (International edition), ISBN 0-13-120764-4