EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Study Materials
Anna University – EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Regulation 2021 Syllabus , Notes , Important Questions, Question Paper with Answers Previous Year Question Paper.
UNIT I MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLES EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Syllabus
MOS logic families (NMOS and CMOS), Ideal and Non Ideal IV Characteristics, CMOS devices.
MOS(FET) Transistor Characteristic under Static and Dynamic Conditions, Technology Scaling,
power consumption
UNIT II COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Notes
Propagation Delays, stick diagram, Layout diagrams, Examples of combinational logic design,
Elmore’s constant, Static Logic Gates,Dynamic Logic Gates, Pass Transistor Logic, Power
Dissipation, Low Power Design principles.
UNIT III SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS AND CLOCKING STRATEGIES EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Important Questions
Static Latches and Registers, Dynamic Latches and Registers, Pipelines, Nonbistable Sequential
Circuits.Timing classification of Digital Systems, Synchronous Design, Self-Timed Circuit Design .
UNIT IV INTERCONNECT , MEMORY ARCHITECTURE AND ARITHMETIC CIRCUITS EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Question Bank
Interconnect Parameters – Capacitance, Resistance, and Inductance, Electrical WireModels,
Sequential digital circuits: adders, multipliers, comparators, shift registers. Logic Implementation
using Programmable Devices (ROM, PLA, FPGA), Memory Architecture and Building
Blocks,Memory Core and Memory Peripherals Circuitry
UNIT V ASIC DESIGN AND TESTING EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Question Paper
Introduction to wafer to chip fabrication process flow. Microchip design process & issues in test and
verification of complex chips, embedded cores and SOCs, Fault models, Test coding. ASIC Design
Flow, Introduction to ASICs, Introduction to test benches, Writing test benches in Verilog HDL,
Automatic test pattern generation, Design for testability, Scan design: Test interface and boundary
scan.
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TEXTBOOKS EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Notes
1. Jan D Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, “ Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective”,
PHI, 2016.(Units II, III and IV).
2. Neil H E Weste, Kamran Eshranghian, “ Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A System
Perspective,” Addison Wesley, 2009.( Units – I, IV).
3. Michael J Smith ,” Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison Wesley, (Unit – V)
4. Samir Palnitkar,” Verilog HDL:A guide to Digital Design and Synthesis”, Second Edition,
Pearson Education,2003.(Unit – V)
5. Parag K.Lala,” Digital Circuit Testing and Testability”, Academic Press, 1997, (Unit – V)
REFERENCES EC3552 VLSI and Chip Design Important Questions
1. D.A. Hodges and H.G. Jackson, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits,
International Student Edition, McGraw Hill 1983
2. P. Rashinkar, Paterson and L. Singh, “System-on-a-Chip Verification-Methodology and
Techniques”, Kluwer Academic Publishers,2001
3. SamihaMourad and YervantZorian, “Principles of Testing Electronic Systems”, Wiley 2000
4. M. Bushnell and V. D. Agarwal, “Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and
Mixed-Signal VLSI Circuits”, Kluwer Academic Publishers,2000
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