02206 Design of Integrated Circuits
Plan for Lectures 1 through 4:
Integrated Circuit Technology

Lecture 1: IC Technology : Introduction to CMOS Technology

Purpose: To discuss the basics of CMOS circuits

Contents:

Integrated circuits, history and motivation
Primer: A digital abstraction of MOS transistors
MOS transistor contact networks
Complementary MOS logic

Literature:

Neil Weste, Sections 1.1 - 1.6
Neil Weste, Sections 1.8 - 1.9

Supplementary reading:

The 50th Anniversary of the Transistor - A Historical Note

Try out this Java demo on CMOS Gates

Lecture 2: IC Technology : CMOS Processing Technology

Purpose: To illustrate essentials of CMOS processing technology

Contents:

CMOS processing - an overview
Excerpts from `Silicapolis - the Microelectronics Universe',
Courtesy Centre Culturel Scientifique & Technique of Grenoble and SGS-Thomson Microelectronics
Layout design rules
Electrical design rules

Literature:

Neil Weste, Sections 3.1 - 3.2
Neil Weste, Sections 3.4 - 3.5
Design Rules for a 0.18 micron CMOS process

Supplementary reading:

Pathway to the Production of High-Purity Silicon - by Mitsubishi Materials Corp

James D. Plummer, Michael Deal and Peter B. Griffin: Modern CMOS Technology, Chapter 2, Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River (NJ), 2000

Michael E. Thomas and Robert H. Havemann: Overview of Interconnect, in
Yoshio Nishi and Robert Doering (ed): Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technologies, Chapter 10, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 2000

Lecture 3: IC Technology : MOSFET physical structure

Purpose: To describe the first order characteristics of the MOS transistor

Contents:

Physical structure
The inversion layer - the conductive channel
Threshold voltage
The Schichmann-Hodges model

Literature::

Neil Weste, Sections 2.1 - 2.2.2

Lecture 4: IC Technology : MOSFET electrical properties

Purpose: To discuss the modeling of second order electrical properties of MOSFETs and to present simple CMOS design structures

Contents:

Body effect and channel length modulation
Large and Small signal model
The CMOS inverter
The CMOS transmission gate

Literature::

Neil Weste, Sections 2.2.3 - 2.7

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