Objectives:
(1) To understand the electrical characteristics of digital integrated circuits
(2) To understand logic levels, noise margins, power consumption, and propagation delays of digital integrated circuits based on scaled CMOS technologies
(3) To understand static and dynamic behaviour of basic logical gates
(4) To understand on chip interconnections and parasitics
(5) To understand combinatorial logic and sequential logic
(6) To understand on chip clock distribution and timing requirements
(7)  To understand memory cell design, write and read cycles and readout amplifiers
 
Topics: 
• Operation and modelling of CMOS Devices, Device current-voltage characteristics
• MOS transistor capacitances, Propagation delay, capacitance, voltage dependence
• CMOS inverter: static voltage-transfer characteristics, Dynamic behaviour, equivalent resistances, propagation delay
• Logic gates: NAND, NOR: voltage-transfer characteristics
• Transmission Gates: voltage-transfer characteristics
• IC interconnect , Interconnect capacitance and resistance
• Standard complementary CMOS combinatorial logic gates
• Pseudo-NMOS logic
• Sequential logic: Flip-flops, latches, registers
• Clocking and timing , Clock distribution, timing analysis
• Memory design, SRAM, DRAM, readout amplifiers