ENGS 141 - Digital Integrated Circuits

This course starts by building foundational knowledge of FET performance as it applies to high-speed digital circuits. It proceeds through custom circuit design techniques, including combinational logic, sequential elements, and large array structures. Students will examine tradeoffs between power, speed and area. Students will learn to quickly and accurately estimate timing delays for complex circuits, which they will confirm through detailed simulations. The second half of the course switches to using an industry standard ASIC flow to design a very large digital system. Students will learn how initial floorplanning affects the final design’s power, performance and area (PPA). Various techniques for improving final results will be studied. By the completion of this course, students will have a strong background in the techniques and tools used to design modern high speed digital chips.

ENGS 31 and ENGS 61 or instructor permission