VLSI Design

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : VLSI Design

MOS TRANSISTOR PRINCIPLE
COMBINATIONAL LOGIC CIRCUITS
1. Circuit Families and Its Comparison - Answer (click here)
2. Low Power Logic Design - Answer (click here)
3. Sequencing Static Circuits - Answer (click here)
4. Circuit Design of Latches and Flip Flops - Answer (click here)
5. Static Sequencing Element Methodology - Answer (click here)
6. Sequencing Dynamic Circuits - Answer (click here)
7. Synchronizers - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
8. Important Short Questions and Answers: Combinational and Sequential
Circuit Design - Answer (click here)

SEQUENTIAL LOGIC CIRCUITS

1. Circuit Families and Its Comparison - Answer (click here)
2. Low Power Logic Design - Answer (click here)
3. Sequencing Static Circuits - Answer (click here)
4. Circuit Design of Latches and Flip Flops - Answer (click here)
5. Static Sequencing Element Methodology - Answer (click here)
6. Sequencing Dynamic Circuits - Answer (click here)
7. Synchronizers - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
8. Important Short Questions and Answers: Combinational and Sequential
Circuit Design - Answer (click here)

DESIGNING ARITHMETIC BUILDING BLOCKS

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES
CMOS TECHNOLOGY
 1. A Brief History of CMOS Technology - Answer (click here)
2. MOS Transistor - Answer (click here)
3. Ideal I-V characteristics of MOS Transistor - Answer (click here)
4. CV characteristics - Answer (click here)
5. Non ideal I-V effects - Answer (click here)
6. DC Transfer Characteristics of CMOS Inverter - Answer (click here)
7. CMOS Technologies - Answer (click here)
8. BiCMOS Technology Fabrication - Answer (click here)
9. CMOS Layout Design Rules - Answer (click here)
10. CMOS Process Enhancements - Answer (click here)
11. Technology Related CAD Issues - CMOS Technology - Answer (click here)
12. Manufacturing Issues - CMOS Technology - Answer (click here)
13. Important Short Questions and Answers: VLSI Design - CMOS
Technology - Answer (click here)

CIRCUIT CHARACTERIZATION AND SIMULATION

1. Delay Estimation - Answer (click here)
2. Logical Effort - Answer (click here)
3. Transistor Sizing - Answer (click here)
4. Power Dissipation - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
5. Interconnect - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
6. Design Margin - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
7. Reliability - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
8. Scaling - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
9. Spice Tutorial - Answer (click here)
10. Device Models - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
11. Device and Circuit Characterization - Answer (click here)
12. Interconnect Simulation - Answer (click here)
13. Important Short Questions and Answers: Circuit Characterization and
Simulation - Answer (click here)

COMBINATIONAL AND SEQUENTIAL CIRCUIT DESIGN

1. Circuit Families and Its Comparison - Answer (click here)
2. Low Power Logic Design - Answer (click here)
3. Sequencing Static Circuits - Answer (click here)
4. Circuit Design of Latches and Flip Flops - Answer (click here)
5. Static Sequencing Element Methodology - Answer (click here)
6. Sequencing Dynamic Circuits - Answer (click here)
7. Synchronizers - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
 8. Important Short Questions and Answers: Combinational and Sequential
Circuit Design - Answer (click here)

CMOS TESTING
1. Need For Testing - Answer (click here)
2. Testers and Test Programs - Answer (click here)
3. Text Fixtures - Answer (click here)
4. Logic Verification - Answer (click here)
5. Silicon Debug Principal - Answer (click here)
6. Manufacturing Test - Answer (click here)
7. Designs For Testability - Answer (click here)
8. Boundary Scan - Answer (click here)
9. Important Short Questions and Answers: VLSI Design - CMOS Testing
- Answer (click here)

SPECIFICATION USING VERILOG HDL

1. Specification Using Verilog HDL: Basic Concepts - Answer (click here)
2. Identifiers - verilog code - Answer (click here)
3. Gate Primitives - Answer (click here)
4. Gate Delays - Verilog HDL - Answer (click here)
5. Operators - Verilog HDL - Answer (click here)
6. Timing Controls - Verilog HDL - Answer (click here)
7. Procedural Assignments Conditional Statements - Answer (click here)
8. Data Flow and RTL - Answer (click here)
9. Structural Gate Level Switch Level Modeling - Answer (click here)
10. Design Hierarchies - VLSI Design - Answer (click here)
11. Behavioural and RTI Modeling - Answer (click here)
12. Testbenches - Answer (click here)
13. Structural Gate Level Description of Decoder - Answer (click here)
14. Important Short Questions and Answers: Specification Using Verilog
HDL - Answer (click here)
15. Important Short Questions and Answers: VLSI Design - Answer (click here)