中国科学院大学 SCEE

Prerequisites: Digital Circuits, Circuit Analysis 
Aims & Requirements: With the development of integrated circuit design and process technologies, large and vast large scale integrated circuits are widely applied in various industries. The high integrations of high-tech products in the area, such as industry and agriculture, military, consumer electronic, can not be without vast large-scale integrated circuit technology. Integrated circuit design is the supporting research direction in future technology development. In China, the personnel special in integrated circuit design is very shortage. This course is the professional basic course for master candidate major in computer and electronics. The course, based on the basic courses such as Digital Circuits and so on, introduces the fundamental and general design methodology of VLSI in detail. Through this course, the basic knowledge of VLSI is learned and the personnel of theory researching and senior engineering developing are trained. The course requires that students should master the method of digital integrated circuit and understand the concepts of design of transistor-level CMOS logical circuit including theory on MOS transistor, CMOS process, layout design rule and the function designing, performance (area, speed, power consumption, stability and reliability) analysis and optimization of various CMOS logical circuits (static complementary CMOS circuit, dynamic CMOS circuit, ratioed circuit and pass-transistor logic circuit)

1. Introduction 
1.1 A Historical Perspective 
1.2 Issues in Digital Integrated Circuit Design 
1.3 Quality Metrics of a Digital Design 
2. The Manufacturing Process 
2.1 Manufacturing CMOS Integrated Circuits 
2.2 Design Rules 
2.3 Packaging Integrated Circuits 
3. The Devices 
3.1 Diode 
3.2 MOS Transistor 
3.3 Process Variations 
3.4 Technology Scaling 
4. The Wire 
4.1 Interconnect Parameters-Capacitance, Resistance, and Inductance 
4.2 SPICE Wire Models 
5. The CMOS Inverter 
5.1 Static CMOS Inverter 
5.2 Evaluating the Robustness of the CMOS Inverter 
5.3 Performance of CMOS Inverter 
5.4 Power, Energy Delay 
5.5 Technology Scaling and Its Impact 
6. Designing Combinational Logic Gates in CMOS 
6.1 Static CMOS Design 
6.2 Dynamic CMOS Design 
6.3 CMOS Design Summary 
7. Designing Sequential Logic Circuits
7.1 Static Latches and Registers 
7.2 Dynamic Latches and Registers 
7.3Aternative Registers 
7.5 Pipelining Optimization 
7.6 Nonbistable Sequential Circuits 
7.7 Choosing a Clocking Strategy 
8. Coping with Interconnect 
8.1 Capacitive Parasitics 
8.2 Resistive Parasitics 
8.3 Inductive Parastics 
8.4 Advanced Interconnect Techniques 
9. Timing Issues in Digital Circuits 
9.1Timing Classification of Digital Systems
9.2 Synchronous Design 
9.3 Self-Timed Circuit Design 
9.4 Synchronizers and Arbiters 
9.5 Clock Synthesis and Synchronization Using a Phase-Locked Loop 
10. Designing Arithmetic Building Blocks 
10.1 Datapaths in Digital Processor Architectures 
10.2 Adder 
10.3 Multiplier 
10.4 Shifter 
10.5 Other Arithmetic Operators 10.6 Design as a Trade-off

Digital Integrated Circuits—A Design Perspective, Second Edition, Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic, 2004

1. Wayne Wolf, Modern VLSI Design: System-on-Chip Design (Third Edition), Prentice Hall, 2002