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Introduction To VLSI Design

This document provides an introduction to VLSI design. It defines VLSI as the process of integrating thousands of transistors onto a single chip, such as a microprocessor. The two most common types of transistors used are Bipolar Junction Transistors and Metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs), with MOSFETs preferred for digital design due to their lower power consumption and smaller size. The document outlines the basic operation of a MOSFET and discusses inverters, NAND gates, silicon wafers, IC packaging, different package types, multichip modules, and Moore's Law.

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Introduction To VLSI Design

This document provides an introduction to VLSI design. It defines VLSI as the process of integrating thousands of transistors onto a single chip, such as a microprocessor. The two most common types of transistors used are Bipolar Junction Transistors and Metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs), with MOSFETs preferred for digital design due to their lower power consumption and smaller size. The document outlines the basic operation of a MOSFET and discusses inverters, NAND gates, silicon wafers, IC packaging, different package types, multichip modules, and Moore's Law.

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Introduction to VLSI design

KARAN SHARMA

Outline
Definition Transistors Basic operation of a MOSFET

The Inverter

Definition
Very large scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating integrated circuits (ICs) by combining thousands of transistors onto a single chip. eg. Microprocessor.

Transistors
Used for switching or amplification. 3 terminal device. Available as stand-alone but found mainly in ICs.

Two most popular types:


Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) Field Effect Transistor (FET) Metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor.

MOSFET preferred over BJT in the digital design world, WHY?


BJTs have a large power consumption. FETs are smaller in size. MOSFET is now the dominant building block of ICs.

Basic operation of a MOSFET (1/2)

Body generally connected to source.

Basic operation of a MOSFET (2/2)

Body generally connected to source.

The Inverter

NAND gate (chip level implementation)

Silicon Wafer

IC packaging
Electrical requirements Thermal and mechanical management Low cost
Silicon die

Bond wires

Different IC packages

Multichip module technique

Moores Law

The number of transistors that can be integrated on a single die would grow exponentially with time. Integration complexity has doubled every 1-2 years.

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