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Introduction to VLSI Systems
Fall Term 2008
Course Content
This course introduces the fundamentals of VLSI technology and uses assignments, including a design project, to reinforce and expand on the fundamentals. Topics include the physical structure of transistors and interconnect; creating schematics, layouts, and simulations of practical circuits; estimating currents, capacitances, and resistances of VLSI circuit elements, and verify your estimates with simulation models. This course explores variation, leakage, power limitations, and other important aspects of state-of-the-art technology. The design project to demonstrate your mastery of these concepts will be to design and simulate circuits of a complex VLSI entity such as an SRAM.
Instructor
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Classes
Monday and Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm, in MacLean 132
Text
Hodges, Jackson, Saleh "Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits in Deep Submicron Technology", Third Edition 2004, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-228365-3.
The text will be supplemented extensively with handouts.
Prerequisites
ENGINEERING SCIENCES 31
Blackboard
Assignments and additional handout material will be posted on Blackboard.