ECE 755: VLSI Systems Design

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ECE 755: VLSI Systems Design, Spring 2005 (Ramanathan)

ECE 755: VLSI Systems Design, Fall 2001 (Chen)

ECE 755: VLSI Systems Design, Fall 1999 (Chen)

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Catalog Description: 755 VLSI Systems Design. (Crosslisted with ECE 755.) I, II; 3cr. Overview of MOS devices and circuits; introduction to integrated circuit fabrication; topological design of data flow and control; interactive graphics layout; circuit simulation; system timing; organizational and architectural considerations; alternative implementation approaches; design project. P:ECE 340, ECE/Comp Sci 352, ECE/Comp Sci 552.
Course Prerequisite(s)

See catalog description above.
Textbook(s) and/or other required material

N. H. E. Weste and D. Harris, CMOS VLSI Design, Addison-Wesley, 2005 (3rd edition)
Supplementary Texts:
Volkan Kursun and Eby G. Friedman, Multi-Voltage CMOS Circuit Design, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2006, ISBN # 0-470-01023-1
Ivan Sutherland, Robert F. Sproull, and David Harris, Logical Effort: Designing Fast CMOS Circuits, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999
Course objectives

Understanding the issues in the design of state-of-the-art high performance integrated circuits
Topics covered

INTRODUCTION
CMOS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
MOS TRANSISTOR THEORY
DC TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS
DELAY ESTIMATION
LOGICAL EFFORT
INTERCONNECT
LOW POWER DESIGN
SCALING
CIRCUIT SIMULATION
COMBINATIONAL CIRCUIT DESIGN
CIRCUIT PITFALLS
SOI CIRCUIT DESIGN
CLOCK DISTRIBUTION
SEQUENTIAL CIRCUIT DESIGN
SEQUENCING DYNAMIC CIRCUITS
MEMORY
PACKAGING AND I/O
POWER DISTRIBUTION
FUNCTIONAL UNITS
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Person(s) who prepared this description

Volkan Kursun

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