B.E. (Biomedical Engineering) Very Large Scale Integration Abbreviated As VLSI Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the Third Year Biomedical Rev 2019 C Scheme syllabus under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2021-22. The University has not yet published an NEP 2020 syllabus above Semester IV for this branch, and this is the scheme its examinations are set on.
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Syllabus for Very Large Scale Integration (Abbreviated as VLSI)
Module 1: Physics of MOSFET
- MOSFET, threshold voltage, linear and saturated operation, FET capacitance, Scaling of MOS circuits, types of scaling and limitations of scaling-short channel and hot electron effect.
Module 2: MOSFET Inverters:
- MOS Transistors, MOS transistor switches, Basic MOS inverter and its working, types of MOS invertors viz active and passive load nMOS inverters, CMOS inverter, voltage transfer characteristics, noise immunity and noise margins.
Module 3: Silicon Semiconductor Technology:
- Wafer processing, mask generation, oxidation, epitaxial growth, diffusion, ion implantation, photolithography, etching, metallization, basic nMOS and pMOS processes. Latch up in CMOS and CMOS using twin tub process.
Module 4: Introduction to VLSI Clocking and System Design:
- Clocking: CMOS clocking styles, Clock generation, stabilization and distribution. Low power CMOS Circuits: Various components of power dissipation in CMOS, limits on low power design, low power design through voltage scaling.
Module 5: Design rules and Layout
- NMOS and CMOS design rules and layout, Design of NMOS and CMOS inverters, NAND and NOR gates. Interlayer contacts, butting and buried contacts, stick diagrams, layout of inverter, NAND and NOR gates. Design of basic VLSI circuits, design of circuits like multiplexer, decoder, flip flops, using MOS circuits.
Module 6: Hardware Description Language
- Introduction to VHDL hardware description language, core features of VHDL, data types, different modeling styles and architectures of VHDL, Combinational and Sequential Logic design using VHDL
Text Books
- 1 CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, Kang, Tata McGraw Hill Publications, Third Edition
- 2 Introduction to VLSI design, E. D. Fabricus, McGraw Hill Publications, 1990
- 3 Basic VLSI Design, D.A. Pucknell and Eshraghian,Prentice Hall of India,2005
- 4 Digital Design Principles and Practices, John F Wakerly, Prentice Hall of India,Third edition
- 5 Circuit Design with VHDL, Volnei A. Pedroni, Prentice Hall of India, 2009
- 6 Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems- John P. Uyemura,Wiley
- 1 VHDL Programming by Examples, Douglas Perry, McGraw Hill Publications, 2008
- 2 Principles of CMOS VLSI Design : A Systems Perspective, Neil H.E. Weste, Kamran Eshraghian Addison Wesley Publications, Second edition, 1993 Theory Examination:
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Biomedical Engineering) under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2021-22. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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