Low Power VLSI Design
EC400150
Detailed Syllabus
Course Code : EC400150 Course name: Low Power VLSI Design
L T P C
3 0 0 3
Pre-requisite: Digital Electronics and Digital IC Design
Objectives: To acquaint the students with the fundamental concepts of low power VLSI CMOS circuit design .
S. Contents Contact
No. Hours
1 Introduction, Sources of Power Dissipation, Static Power Dissipation, Low Static/Dynamic Power 10
Techniques, CMOS logic and Pass-Transistor Logic Families
2 Standard Adder Cells, CMOS Adders Architectures, Parallel Adder. 8
3 Types Of Multiplier Architectures, Parallel Multiplier, Braun, Booth and Wallace Tree Multipliers 10
and their performance comparison
4 Sources of power dissipation in SRAMs, Low power SRAM circuit techniques, Sources of power 6
dissipation in DRAMs
5 Low power VLSI design methodology - LP Physical Design, LP Gate-Level Design, LP 8
Architecture-Level Design, Algorithmic-Level power Reduction.
Total Contact Hours 42
Course Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
CO1: Understand the basic operation of MOSFET and Design CMOS adders architectures
CO2: Analyze the performance parameter of Combinational logic circuits with
Static/Dynamic Power Techniques.
CO3: Design Sequential circuits and estimate their performance parameters.
CO4: Estimate the stability and performance of Memories and array structures.
CO5: Understand the power optimization techniques at different level
Text\ Reference Books
Sl. Name of Books/ Authors Year of
No. Publication
1.
J. Rabaey, “Low Power Design Essentials” Springer 2009
2. Kiat Seng Yeo and Kaushik Roy, Low- Voltage, Low-Power 2009
VLSI Subsystems, Tata Mc Graw Hill
3. Soudris D, Piguet C and Goutis C, Designing CMOS Circuits for 2002
Low Power, Kluwer Academic Publishers
4 Ajit Pal, Low Power VLSI Design, Wiley
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5 Related research papers
Evaluation Criteria
The evaluation criteria for July-Dec 2021 semester will be as follows:
Two quizzes/ class tests/ Assignments of 5 marks each =10 Marks
Mid semester Examination = 20 Marks
End semester Examination = 70 Marks
