Dr.

Veena S Chakravarthi
Guidance on study interesting subjects
Sharing industry experience
Expect Friendly interactive sessions
Mutually beneficial growth both for me and
you
Details Oriented course
As this is a Masters course, the course will not be
offered as a details oriented course. Concepts will be
introduced and discussed, but references need to be
used by students to construct actual study material. For
example, derivations will not be part of the lectures as
they can be easily sourced from references. We will
stick with the syllabus as much as possible, but be
prepared for interesting and useful digressions.
Guides and Notes
No exam oriented guides or notes will be provided.
Students are encouraged to not only use suggested
references, but also use the wide literature available on
these topics. Wherever possible, useful references will
be cited to prepare your own study material.


Integrated circuits: many transistors on one chip.
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI): bucket loads!
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
Fast, cheap, low power transistors

Today: How to build your own simple CMOS chip
CMOS transistors
Building logic gates from transistors
Transistor layout and fabrication



Transistors are built on a silicon substrate
Silicon is a Group IV material
Forms crystal lattice with bonds to four
neighbors