ECE 425 - Introduction to VLSI System Design

Lectures


Date

Topic

Reading

01/15/2019 Introduction Weste & Harris: 1.1, 1.5.1, 1.6
01/17/2019 IC Fabrication Weste & Harris: 1.3, 1.5.1-2
01/22/2019 Circuits and Layout, Circuits and Layout-full equations Weste & Harris: 1.4, 1.5.3-5
01/24/2019 MIPS Case Study Weste & Harris: 1.7-1.12
01/29/2019 CMOS Transistor Theory (1), CMOS Transistor Theory (1)-full equations Weste & Harris: 2.1-2.4
01/31/2019 CMOS Transistor Theory (2), CMOS Transistor Theory (2)-full equations Weste & Harris: 2.5, 4.1-4.3
02/01/2019 (MP0 Report Due)
02/05/2019 SPICE, MP1 Introduction Weste & Harris: 8.1, 8.2
02/07/2019 Combinational Circuit Design , Combinational Circuit Design-full equations (HW1 Due) Weste & Harris: 4.4.1-4.4.4; 4.5.1; 9.1-9.2.2
02/12/2019 Sequential Circuit Design , Sequential Circuit Design-full equations Weste & Harris: 10.1-10.3.4
02/14/2019 Wires , Wires-full equations Weste & Harris: 6.1-6.2.2; 6.3.1-6.3.3; 6.4.1-6.4.2
02/19/2019 Adders, Adders-full equations Weste & Harris: 11.1-11.2.2.8
02/21/2019 Multipliers and Other FUs, Multipliers and Other FUs-full equations Weste & Harris: 11.3-4; 11.8-9
02/26/2019 (MP1 Report Due)
02/26/2019 SRAMs, MP2 Introduction Weste & Harris: 12.1-12.2.5 and 12.5
02/28/2019 CAMs, ROMs, PLAs, CAMs, ROMs, PLAs-full equations Weste & Harris: 12.4-12.7
03/05/2019 Modeling Digital Systems, Verilog (HW2 Due) Weste & Harris: Appendix A
03/07/2019 Midterm Overview
03/12/2019 Midterm,Midterm Solution
03/14/2019 Circuit Pitfalls and Design for Test , Circuit Pitfalls and Design for Test-full equations Weste & Harris: 7.1-7.3; 15.1-15.7
04/02/2019 Design for Low Power , Design for Low Power-full equations Weste & Harris: 5.1-5.3
04/04/2019 VLSI Design Styles Weste & Harris: 14.3
03/29/2019 (MP2 Checkpoint Report Due)
04/09/2019 VLSI CAD Tools Weste & Harris: 14.4
04/11/2019 High-Level Synthesis (1) G. De Micheli: 5
04/11/2019 High-Level Synthesis (2) G. De Micheli: 6
04/16/2019 Logic Synthesis (1) G. De Micheli: 2.5-2.5.1
04/16/2019 Logic Synthesis (2) G. De Micheli: 2.5.2
04/18/2019 Partitioning and Floorplan, MP3 Introduction N. Sherwani: 5.1-5.4, 6.1
04/19/2019 (MP2 Report Due)
04/23/2019 Placement and Routing N. Sherwani: 7-7.1, 7.4, 8-8.4, 9.1.3, 9.4.2
04/25/2019 Final Exam Overview (HW3 Due)
04/30/2019 Final Exam
05/03/2019 (MP3 Report Due, Hard Deadline)