Students are exposed to integrated circuit design techniques and methodologies in this unit. Topics covered include - Overview of MOS and sub-micron technology, scaling and signal integrity, IC design techniques. CMOS cell design: device-level design constraints, gate design, pass transistor circuits, sequential circuits. Layout considerations, design rules and mask level design. Circuit optimisation techniques. ASIC and custom design. Timing issues in VLSI circuit design. Design of VLSI system sub-systems: Arithmetic and logic processing elements, I/Os, buffers, data path design and layout, etc. Chip floor planning. Basic analog building blocks. Design tradeoffs-cost, power and performance. Testability and yield.

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