ENEE 359a: Digital VLSI Circuits by B. Jacob

Spring 2008

Course Information:

Lecture:	Tue Thu 2:00 - 3:15, EGR-3114
Mailing List:	enee359a-0101-spring08@coursemail.umd.edu
Required Text:	CMOS VLSI Design -- A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 3rd Ed., by Weste and Harris
Recommended Texts:	Dally & Poulton: Digital Systems Engineering
	Johnson & Graham: High-Speed Digital Design
	Uyemura: Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems
	Baker, Li, & Boyce: CMOS: Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation

Instructor Information:

Professor:	Bruce L. Jacob, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Office:	1325 A.V. Williams Building
Phone:	(301) 405-0432
Email:
Office Hours:	Open door policy (for now ...)

Course Handouts and General Information:

Syllabus.pdf
A great Verilog tutorial on-line, and PDF of that same tutorial.
verilog-handbook.pdf. This is a concise overview of the Verilog programming language.
realize-verilog.pdf. Gives a functional view of Verilog; i.e. if you want to build a processor model, this shows how. However, it confuses blocking/non-blocking assignments (calls "=" non-blocking and "<=" blocking). Otherwise, it is a decent overview.
scaling.gif. A very interesting picture illustrating the degree to which VLSI designs have reduced in size since the Intel 4004.
2008-midterm-solutions.pdf.

Lectures:

Week	Slides	Topics
Weeks 1/2	enee359a-overview.pdf	Course overview in a nutshell
Weeks 2/3	enee359a-devices.pdf	Intro to (Verilog) design, P/N junctions, MOS transistors, CMOS inverter
Week 4	enee359a-CMOS.pdf	Static CMOS Design
Week 5	enee359a-manufacturing.pdf Maly-CMOS.pdf	Cadence tools & manufacturing processes
Week 6	enee359a-sizing.pdf	Transistor Sizing & Logical Effort
Week 7	enee359a-wires.pdf	Interconnects (i.e., wires)
Week 8	Review and Midterm
Week 9	SPRING BREAK
Weeks 10/11	enee359a-sequential.pdf	Sequential Circuits: Latches, Registers, Pipelines
Week 12	enee359a-parasitics.pdf	Capacitive, Resistive, and Inductive Parasitics
Weeks 13/14	enee359a-timing.pdf	System Timing: Synchronous, Asynchronous, etc.
Weeks 15	enee359a-SRAM-i.pdf	Low-Power SRAM Circuits
Week 16	enee359a-DRAM-i.pdf enee359a-DRAM-ii.pdf	DRAM Systems & Circuits ... pictures of cells

Assignments:

ID	Out	Due	Write-up	Homework Solution/Project Distribution
Project 1	07-Feb-2007	19-Feb-2007	p1.pdf
HW-1	12-Feb-2008	19-Feb-2008	hw1.pdf
HW-2	4-Mar-2008	11-Mar-2008	hw2.pdf