ECE 425 - Introduction to VLSI System Design

Lectures

 

Date

Topic

Reading
08/27/2019 Introduction Weste & Harris: 1.1, 1.5.1, 1.6
08/29/2019 IC Fabrication Weste & Harris: 1.3, 1.5.1-2
09/03/2019 Circuits and Layout, Circuits and Layout-full equations Weste & Harris: 1.4, 1.5.3-5
09/05/2019 MIPS Case Study Weste & Harris: 1.7-1.12
09/10/2019 CMOS Transistor Theory , CMOS Transistor Theory -full equations Weste & Harris: 2.1-2.4
09/12/2019 DC and Transient Response, DC and Transient Response-full equations Weste & Harris: 2.5, 4.1-4.3
09/13/2019 (MP0 Report Due)
09/17/2019 SPICE, MP1 Introduction Weste & Harris: 8.1, 8.2
09/19/2019 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
09/24/2019 Sequential Circuit Design , Sequential Circuit Design-full equations Weste & Harris: 10.1-10.3.4
09/26/2019 Wires , Wires-full equations Weste & Harris: 6.1-6.2.2; 6.3.1-6.3.3; 6.4.1-6.4.2
10/01/2019 Adders, Adders-full equations Weste & Harris: 11.1-11.2.2.8
10/03/2019 Multipliers and Other FUs, Multipliers and Other FUs-full equations Weste & Harris: 11.3-4; 11.8-9
10/04/2019 (MP1 Report Due)
10/08/2019 SRAMs, MP2 Introduction Weste & Harris: 12.1-12.2.5 and 12.5
10/10/2019 CAMs, ROMs, PLAs, CAMs, ROMs, PLAs-full equations Weste & Harris: 12.4-12.7
10/15/2019 Modeling Digital Systems, Verilog (HW2 Due) Weste & Harris: Appendix A
10/17/2019 Midterm Overview
10/22/2019 Midterm
10/24/2019 Circuit Pitfalls and Design for Test , Circuit Pitfalls and Design for Test-full equations Weste & Harris: 7.1-7.3; 15.1-15.7
10/29/2019 Design for Low Power , Design for Low Power-full equations Weste & Harris: 5.1-5.3
10/31/2019 Special topics: Packaging, power and clock Weste & Harris: 13.1-13.4
11/05/2019 VLSI Design Styles Weste & Harris: 14.3
11/01/2019 (MP2 Checkpoint Report Due)
11/07/2019 VLSI CAD Tools Weste & Harris: 14.4
11/12/2019

High Level Synthesis

G. De Micheli: chapters 4 & 5

Optional: 

High-Level Synthesis2
11/14/2019 Logic Synthesis 

G. De Micheli: 2.5-2.5.1

readings
11/19/2019 Logic Synthesis 

G. De Micheli: 2.5.2

readings
11/21/2019 Partitioning and Floorplan, MP3 Introduction N. Sherwani: 5.1-5.4, 6.1
11/22/2019 (MP2 Report Due)
11/26/2017 (Thanksgiving Break)
11/28/2017 (Thanksgiving Break)
12/03/2019 Placement and Routing (HW3 Due) N. Sherwani: 7-7.1, 7.4, 8-8.4, 9.1.3, 9.4.2
12/05/2019 Final Exam Overview 
12/10/2019 Final Exam
12/13/2019 (MP3 Report Due, Hard Deadline)