Unit 1: Analog CMOS Design

What are the advantages of cascade amplifier? Draw the diagram of standard cascade & high swing cascade and explain its voltage transfer curve? Explain classical two stage CMOS op-amp with the help of diagram. Draw & explain all types of CMOS inverters. Also draw the small signal models for them. Differentiate three types of CMOS inverters w. r. t. gain, B.W. and Rout. Draw schematic & explain various types of CMOS differential amplifiers. Draw the equivalent circuit of MOSFET as non ideal switch. Explain all components. Explain MOS device as resistor and diode with the help of equivalent diagram. With schematic diagram & I V characteristics explain Current Sink and Current Source. What are voltage compliances? How to improve them? write short note on ---1) Source follower 2) common source amplifier 3) common gate amplifier 4) common drain amplifier Explain different wire & device parasitic. How do these put limitations on the design with CMOS?

Unit 2: Digital CMOS Design

Draw voltage transfer characteristics of CMOS inverter and explain different regions of operation of NMOS and PMOS transistor. Write short note on 1) Body Effect 2) Power delay product 3) Hot electron

effect 4) velocity saturation 5) Noise Margin What is Static, Dynamic and Short circuit Power dissipation in CMOS? Derive the expression for Total Power dissipation. What are the components which makes the power dissipation in the circuits? What is technology scaling? Explain three ways of scaling the devices. Explain different Design Rule Check in terms of - parameters. What is DRC? Explain in detail Design Rules in CMOS VLSI design. Explain, why the ratio of n / p should be equal to be one for CMOS inverter? Draw 8:1 Multiplexer using transmission gates. Compare this schematic with conventional design.

Unit 4: Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs)

Compare EPROM, PAL, PLA, CPLD, FPGA and ASIC. Explain the following terms 1) CLB 2) UCF 3) GRM 4) EDIF Explain the logic implemented in FPGA & logic implemented in CPLD. Explain with diagram SRAM & Antifusable Generic FPGA architecture. What factors are considered to make a choice in between them? Draw the block diagram & Explain architecture of 1) CPLD 2) FPGA in detail. Explain different types of memories. Explain the features & limitations of CPLD and FPGA devices. Write the specifications of the devices 1) FPGA 2) CPLD What is necessity of PLDs? Write the applications of CPLD, FPGA and ASIC.

Unit 5: Fault tolerance and testability

What are the stuck open and stuck short faults? Also explain stuck at 1 and stuck at 0 faults with an examples. Why there is need of Design for Testability? Explain Controllability, Observability and Predictability with the help of example. What is Test Access Port? Draw and explain the state diagram of TAP controller. Define fault coverage. Explain logical and physical faults in detail. What is need of Boundary scan check? Explain boundary scan architecture. Explain partial and full scan check. What is Built in Self Test? Explain self test circuit for RAM. Write short note on JTAG

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Unit 6: Signal Integrity and System on Chip

1) Clock jitter 4) Clock Skew 2) EMI immune chip design 5) Supply and Ground bounce.

3) Off Chip connections

What are the different Clock distribution techniques available for the VLSI design? Explain Power distribution and Power optimization techniques. Explain interconnect Routing Techniques. What is the wire parasitic? How it affect the performance in the VLSI design? Explain different Signal Integrity issues. Explain input pad design, output pad design and 3-state pad design in chip.

Unit 3: VHDL and Finite State Machines

Write short note on Metastability. Explain the following used in VHDL with the help of suitable examples. 1) wait statements 2) Generate statement 3) Procedure 4) Functions 5) Configuration 6) operator overloading What is test bench? With VHDL code Explain synthesizable and Nonsynthesizable test bench.