Syllabus

Power-speed-noise trade-off. Ultra-lower power VLSI design. Leakage power vs dynamic power. Minimum energy point concept. Low voltage analog, mixed-signal design. VLSI design for IoT applications. Low voltage memories.

Designing for high speed/performance. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. Selected topics on clock skew, clock routing, power routing. Selected topics on layout techniques in mixed-signal circuits – guard rings, etc. Role of calibration in modern ICs.