VLSI Design Course through Online Educational Tools during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic poses a global impediment to educational delivery. In general, for both teachers and students, subjects like Microelectronics, VLSI Design, and Embedded Systems become challenging to learn and teach during the COVID-19 period. The pandemic has also acted as an incentive to extend the use of educational technologies. The sole objective is to explore conceptual online quiz questions and create interest in the subject of VLSI design. This manuscript explores the concepts of IC fabrication, fabrication issues, various forms of CMOS logic design, and inverter delay model. The fundamentals of pass transistors and transmission gates, scaling of VLSI circuits, power dissipation issues, stick diagram, layout design rules, and testability design are also viewed differently through tricky quiz questions. The Quizizz platform is used to conduct a quiz remotely. This study paper encourages self-learning in both professors and students, which will lead to more advanced research on themes such as CMOS VLSI testing, Low Power VLSI Design, and Electronic Computer-Aided (CAD) tools.