Digital MOS Integrated Circuits

(3-0-0-3)

CMPE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is Not Applicable for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Electronic Design and Applications

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Prerequisites: None.

Catalog Description

Detailed analysis of the operaration and design of high performance MOS
digital integrated circuits. Emphasis is on current design techniques
with examples from the literature.

Course Outcomes

Not Applicable

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

Not Applicable

Topical Outline

MOSFETs
Physics of the MOS system
MOSFET I-V equations
Layout and parasitics

Static Logic Gates
CMOS inverter: DC and transient analysis
Pass transistor networks
Complex logic gates
Series-parallel networks
Pseudo nMOS networks and arrays
Adders
SRAM cells and arrays
Driver chain sizing
Input/Output networks

Transmission Gate Networks
CMOS TG analysis
Multiplexors
Logic networks
Adder circuits

Dynamic Logic Families
Clocks and synchronization
DRAMs
Precharge/evaluate ripple logic
Domino logic families
Basic DL analysis and modified P/E chains
Self-Resetting logic
MODL
NORA and related families
Advanced single and dual phase techniques
Clock distribution techniques
Applications to current high-performance systems design

Differential Logic Families
CVSL fundamentals
DSL and related families
Current design strategies