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Microelectronics Circuits
FEKT-NMEOAcad. year: 2011/2012
Requirements posed on integrated circuit. Design methods, using technologies (bipolar, CMOS, BiCMOS, HBiCMOS) and their influence on IC performance. Basic functional blocks (current and voltage references, amplifiers and converters), design methods of the blocks for their usage in VLSI structures. Design software introduction (CADENCE, Mentor Graphics, L-Edit), layout and design rules, placement of anlogue and digital blocks on chip. Special compensation methods for the integrated circuits. IC design focused on RF and telecommunications circuits.
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Basic literature
Rabaey, J.M.:Digital integrated circuits., Prentice Hall, 1996
Wolf, W.: Modern VLSI design, Prentice Hall, 1994
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Technologies (CMOS, HBiCMOS) and their performance. Technological models. Design rules. MOS transistor structure, behaviour. Layout methodology.
Digital MOSFET model, delay- and transition times. DC characteristics. Series-connected MOSFETs, behaviour.
Inverter-basic digital cell. DC characteristics. Switching characteristics, ring oscillator. Used inverter structures. Layout of the invereter.
Static logic gates. DC characteristics. Switching characteristics. Design of logic gates on transistor level. Layout of the logic gates. Tri-state output, number of inputs.
CMOS transmission gate, flip-flops. Behaviour, compensation, layout. Serial-connected TG. Flip-flop structures on transistor level. Layout.
Dynamic logic gates. Performance, comparison with static logic. Nonoverlapping clock generators. Dynamic logic gates, complex structures (adders, multiplexers etc.). Simulation of dynamic logic structures. Layout.
BiCMOS logic gates. Performance. Bipolar structures in CMOS technology. Basic gates. CMOS and ECL conversion using BiCMOS.
Memory circuits. DRAM and SRAM cells on transistor level. Row/Collum decoders. Timing requirements for DRAMs. Modern DRAM circuits, architecture types and layout.
Special-purpose digital circuits. Schmitt triger. Design, switching characteristics, applications. Multivibratiors. Monostable and astable multivibrator, design, layout.
Digital Phase-locked loops. Phase detectors. Voltage-control oscillatros. Requirements, design and layout. Applications.
VHDL language.
New principles of IC design and manufacturing.
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Design rules. Technological models of the physical devices - types and structures.
Features of using technologies. Layout correction and compensation of technology process errors.
MOS transistor layout.
Inverter. Types, circuit design and layout.
Static logic gates. Types, circuit design and layout.
TG and flip-flops. Circuit design, layout.
Dynamic logic gates. Structures, circuit design and layout.
BiCMOS logic gates. Structures, circuit design and optimalisation, layout.
Memory circuits. Block structures. Design.
Schmitt trigger, multivibrators. Design and layout.
Digital phase-locked loops.
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