ESE 355 VLSI System Design

`ESE 355 VLSI System Design - Spring 2005`

Instructor: Dr. Alex Doboli, Email: adoboli@ece.sunysb.edu

TA: Yulei Weng, Email: wengy@ece.sunysb.edu

Description

The course will introduce techniques and tools for scalable VLSI design and analysis. The emphasis is on physical design and
on performance analysis. The course includes extensive lab experiments, a mini project and hands-on usage of CAD tools.

Goals

Upon complition of the course, students will be able to develop, layout, and simulate fabricatable designs of VLSI building-blocks,
such as registers, arithmetic units, finite state machines, and medium-scale VLSI chips. Students will know to design digital circuits
optimized for timing, area, and power consumption.

Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:40-11:35am; Physics 127
Lab : Tuesday: 2.15-5.15pm; Engineering 114

Course Syllabus

Course schedule

Text Books:

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

2. Neil Weste, D. Harris, "CMOS VLSI Design", Third Edition, 2005.

Lecture Slides

Week1	Introduction to design of VLSI systems and circuits
Week2	Topic 1: MOSFET transistor
Week 3	Topic 2: CMOS inverter
Week4	Topic 3: CMOS inverter
Week 5	Topic 4: Combinational Logic Gates (Static CMOS family) Layout techniques for complex gates.
Week 6	Topic 4: Dynamic logic
Week 7	Topic 4: Combinational logic gates
Week 8	Topic 5: Design of Sequential Circuits.
Week 9	Spring Break
Week 10	Topic 5: Design of Sequential Circuits.
Week 11	Topic 6: Design for Testabiltiy.
Week 12	Topic 7: Interconnect.
Week 13	Topic 7: Interconnect.
Week 14	Topic 8: Timing Issues in Digital Circuits
Week 15	Topic 8: Timing Issues in Digital Circuits

Lab Material & Mini Project Guidelines

Link to the lab web page

Homework 1 : Lab material: HSPICE Quick Reference Manual (pick link to HSPICE "Quick" Reference Sheet).

MOSIS Design Rules

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

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

Office Hours:

Monday and Wednesday 1-3pm (Light Engineering Bldg. 261).

Exams

Midterm: Wednesday - Week 8, 10:40-11:35am, Room: PHYSICS P127.
Final exam : Exam week
Sample midterm exam (Spring 2002)
Sample final exam (Spring 2002)
Midterm 1. Problem 1. Solution
Midterm 1. Problem 2-1. Solution
Midterm 1. Problem 2-2. Solution
Midterm 1. Problem 2-3. Solution
Midterm 1. Problem 3. Solution

Grading

Final Grade = Homework1 * 0.05 + Homework2 * 0.1 +
                    Homework3 * 0.1 + Homework4 * 0.1 +
                     Mid-term * 0.2 + Final * 0.2 + Mini Project * 0.2 +
                     Student portofolio * 0.05

Homeworks

	Points	Start date	Due date
Homework1	5	Jan 24	Feb 18
Homework 2	10	Feb 16	March 9
Homework 3	10	March 9	April 1
Homework 4	10	April 1	April 15

If you want to share comments or anything else related to the class please send an e-mail to Alex Doboli . Last updated Jan 31 2005