Design of Integrated Circuits

CMOS technology, The MOS transistor: Function and characteristic properties. Static and dynamic analysis of logical functions. Simplified layout. Simple digital modules. Introduction to CAD tools. Guest lecturers from the electronic industry. Mandatory project: Design and verification of a medium complex digital circuit.

The curriculum include construction and functionality of integrated circuits implemented in modern CMOS technology. This includes basic analog building blocks and modeling using Spice simulators. Synchronous sequential circuits and general digital functions are also included. Hardware descriptive languages (HDL) are used for specification and simuation of digital circuits and systems.

Short description:
The subject deals with MOS transistors and simple analog circuits. The emphasis is towards digital circuits and systems, though. Basic principles for construction are considered.

Knowledge:
The students should gain insight into the functioning of MOSFET transistors and models for these, including small signal LF-models. Analog building blocks as current mirrors and basic amplifiers implemented in CMOS are parts of the curriculum. Theory behind basic characteristics like power consumption, delay and noise margins for logic building blocks is treated. The subject also contain an introduction to testing of VLSI circuits. AIMSpice and Verilog are examples of software tools used.

Skills:
The subject should provide knowledge to combine analog and digital functionality to form a system. This happens through the constrution of basic building blocks in CMOS and combinin them towards a mixed analog / digital system.

General competence:
The students should cooperate, in groups, to solve a project task and present their results in a written report.

Lectures, self study and a mandatory project. The final grade is given from the exam (60%) and the project assignment (40%). If threre is a re-sit examination, the examination form may be changed from written to oral.