Digital Integrated Circuits (VLSI) - English Lectures

BIU Course Number: 83-313

Lecturer: Prof. Adam Teman

1. Introduction, Digital Design

Section 1a: Intro to the Intro

Section 1c: How a Chip is Born

Section 1b: The World of Chip Design

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 1

2. The Manufacturing Process

Section 2a: A Process Primer

Section 2c: Process Variations

Section 2b: Detailed Process Flow

Section 2d: Manufacturing Issues

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 2

3. MOSFET Modeling

Section 3a-3b: MOS Models

Section 3d: Simulating Variation

Section 3c: Threshold Voltage Revisited

Section 3e: Leakage in NanoScaled Transistors

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 3 – Sections a-d

Kahoot for Lecture 3 – Sections e

4. Design Metrics

Lecture 4: Design Metrics

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 4

5. Scaling and The NanoScaled MOSFET

Section 5a: Moore’s Law

Section 5c: The NanoScaled Transistor

Section 5b: Scaling Models

Section 5d: Current and Future Trends

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 5

6. Interconnect

Section 6a-b: Capacitance

Section 6e: Wire Scaling

Section 6c-d: Resistance and Interconnect Modeling

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 6

7. Sequential Logic

Section 7a: Sequential Logic – Motivation

Section 7c: Timing Parameters

Section 7e: Basic Timing Constraints

Section 7b: Sequential Logic Elements

Section 7d: Other Flip Flop Implementations

Section 7f: Static Timing Analysis Example

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 7

8. SRAM

Section 8a: SRAM – Introduction

Section 8c: 6T SRAM Operation

Section 8e: SRAM Stability

Section 8b: The 6T SRAM Bitcell

Section 8d: 6T SRAM Layout

Section 8f: SNM Calculation

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 8

9. Memory Peripherals

Section 9a: SRAM Peripherals – Overview

Section 9c: Column Decoder and Sense Amplifiers

Section 9b: Row Decoder Design

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 9

10. Arithmetic Circuits

Section 10a: Intro – Basic Addition

Section 10c: Basic Multiplication

Section 10b: Fast Adders

Section 10d: Fast Multipliers

Supplementary Material:

Kahoot for Lecture 10 – Sec a-b

Kahoot for Lecture 10 – Sec c-d

11. Other Memories

Section 11a: Other Memories

Section 11c: Dynamic RAM (DRAM)

Section 11e: Emerging Memories (PCM, ReRAM, MRAM, FeRAM)

Section 11b: Read Only Memory (ROM)

Section 11d: Non-Volatile Memory (NVM)

Supplementary Material:

VLSI – Kahoot for Lecture 11