Digital IC and Systems Design

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Design and layout simple digital CMOS logic gates

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The Principles of CMOS Digital Circuits
• Power-reduction techniques

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Describe architectures for Arithmetic Datapath Blocks
• Describe the principles of asynchronous circuits
• Analyse the performance of synchronous systems

Introduction to IC Design

• IC system design options
• CMOS processing, layout and design rules
• Stick diagrams
• Static complementary gates
• System design using standard cells

Timing Schemes in Digital Systems

• Principles of Synchronous Design
• Clock trees and clock management
• Asynchronous Circuits
• Design and implementation of Synchronisers
• Metastability in Digital System

Design of large digital Systems

• Fundamental concepts of datapath and controller
• Circuit Power Consumption, design tradeoffs speed-power, introduction to low power circuit design
• Design hierarchy

Architecture of Arithmetic Datapath Blocks (Adders and Multipliers)

• Comparision of standard designs
• Complexity analysis
• Delay analysis

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Weste N, Harris D (2011). Integrated Circuit Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective. Pearson.

Zwolinski M, (2010). Digital System Design with SystemVerilog. Pearson Prentice Hall.

Tanenbaum and Wetherall (2010). Computer Networks. Prentice Hall.

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