Fundamentals of VLSI Design

This Standalone NOS provides a comprehensive overview of its evolution and critical role in modern electronics, covering CMOS transistor theory, MOSFET operation principles, scaling trends, and semiconductor manufacturing advancements. It explores CMOS inverter characteristics, CMOS logic design with fundamental gates and advanced combinational logic techniques, and transistor-level schematics. The course also addresses on-chip wire modeling, packaging technologies, gate delays, logical effort analysis for optimal designs, and timing considerations in sequential circuits, emphasizing setup, hold time analysis, and performance optimization strategies.