02206 Design of Integrated Circuits
Plan for Lectures 8 through 11:
CMOS Circuit and Logic Design
Lecture 8:
CMOS Circuit and Logic Design :
Construction of a digital IC
Purpose:
To discuss the proper choice of production technology and
to discuss the layout of complex logic gates
Contents:
Custom and semi-custom technologies
The floorplan
Graph representation of a circuit
Transformation of graph representations - Euler paths
Automatic approach to layout generation
Literature:
Neil Weste, Sections 5.1 - 5.3 and 5.6
Lecture 9:
CMOS Circuit and Logic Design :
Logic Configurations
Purpose:
To present and discuss different logic configurations
Contents:
Static logic: Complementary logic and
pseudo-nMOS logic
Pass-transistor logic
Dynamic logic: Precharge logic and
Domino logic
Literature:
Neil Weste, Sections 5.1 - 5.3
Lecture 10:
Clock Strategies
Purpose: To discuss the impact of various clocking strategies
Contents:
Memory elements
Metastability
Clock systems: Single-phase clocking,
Two-phase clocking, and Four-phase clocking
Literature:
Neil Weste, Sections 5.4
Lecture 11:
High Speed CMOS Circuit Techniques
Purpose: To review techniques for high-speed CMOS design
Contents:
Single-phase clocking
Doubled N-C2MOS and P-C2MOS latches
