Micro-Sensors and MEMS

After completion of the course the students will be able to:

CO1: Recall the basic principles of different sensors and actuators

CO2: Understand the process of miniaturization of a sensor and actuator to produce a micro sensor and micro actuator and its integration with microelectronics circuitry.

CO3: Apply various fabrication technologies for miniaturization of sensors and actuators for MEMS.

CO4: Analyze the different properties of sensors and actuators.

CO5: Evaluate the behavior of MEMS devices.

CO6: Create approaches for the designing of different MEMS based devices for various real-life applications.

LOW Power VLSI Design

Course Outcomes

After completion of the course the students will be able to:

CO1: Acquire the fundamental knowledge of low power VLSI design,

CO2: Infer about static and dynamic power dissipation.

CO3: Ability to implement logic circuits and advanced low power design techniques.

CO4: Analyse different techniques required to minimize the leakage power.

CO5: Evaluate the characteristics low power analog and digital circuits.

CO6: Design of low power memory devices.


Digital System Design Using Verilog

Advanced VLSI Circuit Testing

After completion of the course the students will be able to:

CO1: Recall the knowledge of fault modeling and fault simulation.

CO2: Understand ATPG algorithm for combinational and sequential circuits

CO3: Apply the knowledge of high-level testability Measures, SCOAP controllability and observability.

CO4: Analyze different memory testing algorithms

CO5: Assess and evaluate scan architecture

CO6: Design testing algorithms for VLSI components



Advanced ASIC and FPGA Design

Advanced ASIC and FPGA Design

Low power VLSI design

GRAPHIC ERA (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), DEHRADUN

SEMESTER II

S. No.

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

1.

Subject Code

VDM 204

Course Title

Low Power VLSI Design

2.

Contact Hours

L

3

T

0

P

0

3.

Examination Duration

Theory

3

Practical

0

4.

Relative Weight

CIE

25

MSE

25

SEE

50

5.

Credit

03

6.

Semester

Second

7.

Category of Course

PC

8.

Pre-requisite

Advanced Digital Integrated Circuit

 

9.

Course Outcomes

After completion of the course the students will be able to:

CO1: Acquire the fundamental knowledge of low power VLSI design,

CO2: Infer about static and dynamic power dissipation.

CO3: Ability to implement logic circuits and advanced low power design techniques.

CO4: Analyse different techniques required to minimize the leakage power.

CO5: Evaluate the characteristics low power analog and digital circuits.

CO6: Design of low power memory devices.

10. Details of the Course

S. No.

                      Contents

Contact Hours

1.

Unit 1: Introduction to Low Power VLSI:  

Overview, Need for Low Power VLSI Digital Integrated Circuits, Basic Principles of Low Power Design, Physics of Power Dissipation; Technology and Device Effect on Low Power: Transistor Sizing, Gate Oxide Thickness, Impact of Technology Scaling, Technology & Device innovation.

8

2.

Unit 2: Sources of Power Dissipation in MOS Devices:

Power Estimation, Dynamic Power Dissipation: Short Circuit Power, Switching Power, Gliching Power; Static Power Dissipation, Probabilistic Power Analysis, Degrees of Freedom.                          

10

3.

Unit 3: Logic Circuits and Advanced Techniques:

Logic circuits, Special Techniques: Architecture and Systems; Emerging Low power Techniques, Physics of Power Dissipation in CMOS FET Devices; Design of Low Power CMOS Circuits,  Supply Voltage Scaling Approaches; Switched Capacitance minimization  Approaches.

8

4.

Unit 4: Leakage Power Minimization Approaches:

Synthesis in Low Power Design, Test of Low Voltages CMOS Circuits; Variable threshold Voltage CMOS  (VTCMOS) Approach, Multi threshold Voltage CMOS  (MTCMOS) approach, Power gating Transistor  Stacking, Dual- threshold Voltage (Vt)  Assignment  Approach  (DTCMOS).

8

5.

Unit 5: Low Power Techniques:

Low Power Static RAM Architectures, Low Power SRAM/DRAM Design, Low Energy Computing using Energy Recovery Techniques, Software Design for Low Power, CAD Tools for Low Power Synthesis.

8

 

Total

42

11. Suggested Books

S.

No.

Name of Authors/Books/Publishers

Edition

Year of Publication / Reprint

 

Textbooks

 

 

1.

Gary Yeap, “Practical Low Power Digital VLSI Design”, Springer.

1st

1998

2.

Kaushik Roy and Sharat Prasad, “Low Power CMOS VLSI Circuit Design” Wiley.

1st

2000

 

Reference Books

 

 

1.

J. B. Kuo and J. H. Lou, Low “Voltage CMOS VLSI Circuits”, Wiley.

1st

1999

2.

J. M. Rabaey, A. P. Chandrakasan and B. Nikolic, “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective”,

2nd

2003