This course covers several aspects of digital circuit design. With the relentless drive to reduce cost, size, and power consumption while simultaneously achieving performance goals, chip design issues (a.k.a. Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit Design concerns) are at the center of electronics industry.
CMOS digital circuit design, simulation, and layout flow will be reviewed in this course, and applied in assignments using state-of-the-art CAD tools commonly used in the VLSI design industry.
Students will use design metrics such as size, speed, power dissipation, energy, and reliability to optimize IC design.
Special subsystems (memory, packaging, I/Os, power and clock distributions), testability issues, and some more advanced IC building blocks will finally be discussed.
Recent changes in circuit design styles and future trends in digital circuit design. We will cover different design styles, special subsystems (memory, packaging, I/Os, power and clock distributions), testability issues, and some more advanced IC building blocks will finally be discussed.
The goal of the class is to take you through a tour of the issues a typical circuit designer in industry deals with, and the design techniques they utilize. The focus is on custom digital VLSI design.
At the end of this class, student would have an understanding of the analysis techniques and tools that are required for a VLSI circuit designer to effectively function in today's industry.
The intended audience would be graduate students interested in the techniques and trends in contemporary VLSI circuit design. The course could serve as a starting point for possible research in this area.
- Учитель: Gurtac Yemiscioglu