Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:51:57 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 21:36:51 GMT Content-length: 3682 CSE462 VLSI Design


CSE 462: VLSI Design


Professor:

Dr. Jay Brockman
384 Fitzpatrick Hall
phone: 1-8810
email: jbb@cse.nd.edu
office hours: Tu, Th 2:30-3:30, or by appointment

Teaching Assistants:

Steve Dartt
email: sdartt@bach.helios.nd.edu

Lecture:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 117 DeBartolo Hall, 10:40-11:30

CAD Lab:

Monday, Engineering Computer Cluster, 1:00-2:30
Tuesday, Engineering Computer Cluster, 7:30-9:00 PM

Texts:

Required:
N. Weste and K. Eshraghian. Principals of CMOS VLSI Design, A Systems
Perspective
, 2nd Ed. Addison Wesley, 1993.


Strongly Recommended:
Jan M. Rabaey, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, Prentice Hall, 1996

Lecture Notes:

Available in class Friday, 8/30. Bring $10 to cover semester xeroxing fee.

Homework Assignments:

Homework 1: Complementary CMOS Logic/Devices (Do problems 1-3 only)

Homework 2: MOS Device Characteristics

Homework 3: Inverter DC Performance

Homework 4: Inverter Dynamic Performance

Homework 5: Physical Design of Static CMOS Gates

Homework 6: Static CMOS Logic Families

Homework 7: Dynamic Logic

Lab/Design Projects:

Lab 1: Switch-Level Simulation

Lab 2: Fabrication Process simulation with pdFab

Lab 3: Using Accusim for DC and Transient Simulation

Lab 4: Inverter Layout (see Custom IC Tutorial in Mentor Bold Browser)

Lab 5: Design Rule and Layout Versus Schematic Checking

Lab 6: Logical Design and Simulation of an 8-Bit Counter

Lab 7: Counter Layout and Verification

Lab 8: Evaluation of Counter Performance

Class newsgroup: nd.courses.cse462
Web Sites of Related Courses:

Homepage for Jan Rabaey's new IC design text, with links to lecture notes, CAD tools, sample problems, projects and more.
University of Michigan undergrad VLSI Class
Berkeley's undergrad VLSI class
Berkeley's advanced digital integrated circuit class (graduate level)
Stanford's graduate VLSI class

Don't Miss:

University of Idaho VLSI Links