Integrated Circuit Structures

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Department of Microelectronics

Synopsis:

Main trends in integrated circuit fabrication. Basic aspects of bipolar and unipolar integrated structures - MOS capacitances, C-U characteristic. Identification of basic CMOS integrated circuit design and fabrication. Some aspects of CMOS IO fabrication. Layout topology and design rules. Integrated circuit design methods. Design of basic CMOS IO blocks. Digital IO design - basic parameters of TTL, ECL, NMOS and CMOS gates. Memories. Bipolar integrated circuits, BiCMOS. Integrated circuit testing.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. Historical outline of integrated circuits. Design methods.

2. Basic MOS transistor, Si - SiO2 surface characteristic, MOS capacitances, C-U characteristic.

3. MOST threshold voltage, linear and saturation region, first-order model.

4. Integrated circuit technology.

5. CMOS, NMOS and PMOS fabrication. Some aspects of fabrication.

6. Electrical properties of MOST, enhancement and depletion MOST, LDD structure, latch-up.

7. Passive structures fabrication and models. Test structures.

8. Layout topology, design rules.

9. Scaling, Sub micron MOST, further development.

10. Basic CMOS IO blocks (current sources, voltage and current references).

11. Basic CMOS IO blocks (differential amplifier, active load, invertor).

12. CMOS and NMOS gates parameters, power dissipation.

13. Memories.

14. Bipolar integrated circuits, BiCMOS.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Interduction to UNIX system, environment SUN Solaris.

2. CADENCE design tools, CMOS library, devices models.

3. CMOS invertor - transfer characteristic, circuit simulators, netlist.

4. CMOS invertor pull-up and pull-down, transient and AC analysis.

5. Design rules and layout NMOS and PMOS transistors.

6. IO circuit topology, hierarchy, layout architectural issues of power and data paths.

7. Design of power sources, current and voltage references.

8. Design of differential amplifier.

9. Project - practical design of analog integrated circuit.

10. Project - practical design of analog integrated circuit.

11. Project - practical design of analog integrated circuit.

12. Project - practical design of analog integrated circuit.

13. Project - practical design of analog integrated circuit.

14. Presentation of project, account.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. Pucknell, D., Eshraghian, K.: Basic VLSI Design. Prentice Hall, 1988

2. Weste, N., Eshraghian, K.: Principles of CMOS VLSI Design. Add.-Wesley, 1992

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Electronics - Electronic Systems- structured studies (compulsory course)
• Economics and Management in Electrical Engineering- structured studies (compulsory course)
• Electronics - Electronics and Photonics- structured studies (compulsory course)