Prerequisites: ESE 372
Number of credits: 3

Final exam: Friday, Dec 17 2004, 8-10am, Room: Heavy Eng 201

Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:40-11:35am; Heavy Engineering 201
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday: 1-3pm; Light Engineering 261
TA: Ying Wei, Office hours: Tuesday, Thursday: 9.30-11.30am

Description

The course offers an overview of the design and fabrication of integrated circuits.

Goals

Topics include gate-level and transistor-level level design; fabrication material and processes; layout of circuits; and automated design tools.
This material is directly applicable to industrial IC design and provides a needed background for more advanced courses.

Text Books:

• Jan Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, B. Nikolic, "Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Persepctive", Prentice Hall, 2003.

Course Syllabus

Course schedule
 

Lecture Slides

 Week 1: Introduction to design of VLSI systems and circuits.
 Week 2: The Manufacturing Process.
 Week 3: The Manufacturing Process.
 Week 4: The MOSFET Transistor.
 Week 5: The CMOS Inverter.
 Weeks 6, 7, 8: Combinational Logic Gates.
 Weeks 9, 10: Design of Sequential Circuits.
 Weeks 11, 12, 13: Arithmetic Building Blocks. 
 Weeks 14, 15: Designing Memory and Array Structures.

Extra Material

 Extra material on IC fabrication: S. A. Campbell, "The Science and Engineering of Microelectronic Fabrication", Oxford, 2001. .

 MOSIS Design Rules.

 SPICE Models for MOSIS technology.
 Models for 0.5um.  Models for 0.8um.  Models for 1.5um.  Models for 2.0um.

 HSPICE Quick Reference Manual (pick link to HSPICE "Quick" Reference Sheet).

 Magic Reference Manuals.
 Tutorial 1  Tutorial 2  Tutorial 3  Tutorial 4  Tutorial 5  Tutorial 6  Tutorial 7  Tutorial 8
 Tutorial 9  Tutorial 10  Tutorial 11  Tutorial 12

Grading

Final Grade= Homework₁ * 0.05 + Homework₂ * 0.05 + Homework₃ * 0.05 +
                    Homework₄ * 0.05 + Homework₅ * 0.1 +
                    Mid-term exam * 0.25 + Final exam * 0.4 + Student portofolio * 0.05

Exams

Midterm: October 22, 2003, 10:40-11:35am, Heavy engineering 201.
Final exam: Exam week

Homeworks

Homework 1 (Starts: 09/15 - Due date: 10/01)
Homework 2 (Starts: 10/01 - Due date: 10/15)
Homework 3 (Starts: 10/15 - Due date: 11/01)
Homework 4 (Starts: 11/01 - Due date: 11/19)
Homework 5 (Starts: 11/19 - Due date: 12/10)

If you want to share comments or anything else related to the class please send an e-mail to Alex Doboli . Last updated August 23 2004