Test 3
Syllabus
CSCE 5730/4730: Digital CMOS VLSI Design
Instructor: Dr. Saraju P. Mohanty
NOTE: This is closed
book/text examination.
- Transistor resistor-voltage Characteristics
- Transistor C-V Characteristics : Gate Capacitance
- Transistor C-V Characteristics : Overlap Capacitance
- Transistor C-V Characteristics : Diffusion Capacitance
- Transistor C-V Characteristics : 5 Components of Capacitance
- Velocity saturation in short-channel MOS device
- Mobility degradation in short-channel MOS device
- Channel length modulation in short-channel MOS device
- Body effect in short-channel MOS device
- Subthreshold conduction in short-channel MOS device
- Junction leakage in short-channel MOS device
- Gate leakage (tunneling) in short-channel MOS device
- Effect of Operating temperature in short-channel MOS device
- Effect of Device geometry in short-channel MOS device
- Process variation in nanoscale CMOS circuits
- Interconnect Impact on Chip
- Impact of Interconnect Parasitics
- The Parallel Plate Model of Wire Capacitance
- Fringing Capacitance of Wire
- Crosstalk in Wires
- Wire Resistance
- The Lumped Model of Wire Resistance
- The Lumped RC-Model using The Elmore Delay
- The Elmore Delay: RC Chain
- Propagation and Contamination of combination logic
- Switch-level RC Delay Models
- Effective Resistance and Capacitance
- Hierarhical design
- Layout design rules
- Design verification