ESE 355 VLSI System Design

ESE 355 VLSI System Design - Spring 2007

Instructor: Dr. Alex Doboli, Email: adoboli@ece.sunysb.edu

TA: Pengbo Sun, Email: psun@ic.sunysb.edu

Description

The course introduces techniques and tools for scalable VLSI design and analysis. The emphasis is on physical design and
on performance analysis. The course includes extensive lab experiments, a mini project, and hands-on usage of CAD tools.

Goals

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to develop, layout, and simulate fabricatable designs of VLSI building-blocks,
such as registers, arithmetic units, finite state machines, and medium-scale VLSI chips. Students will know to design digital circuits
optimized for timing, area, and power consumption.

Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:40-11:35am; Earth & Space Science 180
Lab : Tuesday: 2.15-5.15pm; Light Engineering 281A

Course syllabus and additional course documents are available on Blackboard

Lab page

Text Books:

1. Jan Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, B. Nikolic, "Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective", Prentice Hall, 2003.

2. Neil Weste, D. Harris, "CMOS VLSI Design", Third Edition, 2005.

Lecture Slides

Week1	Introduction to design of VLSI systems and circuits
Week2	Topic 1: MOSFET transistor
Week 3	Topic 2: CMOS inverter
Week4	Topic 3: CMOS inverter
Week 5	Topic 4: Combinational Logic Gates (Static CMOS family) Layout techniques for complex gates.
Week 6	Topic 4: Dynamic logic
Week 7	Topic 4: Combinational logic gates
Week 8	Topic 5: Design of Sequential Circuits.
Week 9	Spring Break
Week 10	Topic 5: Design of Sequential Circuits.
Week 11	Topic 6: Design for Testability.
Week 12	Topic 7: Interconnect.
Week 13	Topic 7: Interconnect.
Week 14	Topic 8: Timing Issues in Digital Circuits
Week 15	Topic 8: Timing Issues in Digital Circuits

Lab Material & Mini Project Guidelines

Link to the lab web page

Homework 1 : Lab material: HSPICE Quick Reference Manual (pick link to HSPICE "Quick" Reference Sheet).

MOSIS Design Rules

SPICE Models for MOSIS technology: Models for 0.5um . Models for 0.8um . Models for 1.5um . Models for 2.0um .

Magic Reference Manuals : Tutorial 1 Tutorial 2 Tutorial 3 Tutorial 4 Tutorial 5 Tutorial 6 Tutorial 7 Tutorial 8
Tutorial 9 Tutorial 10 Tutorial 11 Tutorial 12

Office Hours:

Monday and Friday 1-3pm (Light Engineering Bldg. 261).

Exams

Midterm: Wednesday - Week 8, 10:40-11:35am, Room: Earth & Space Science 180.
Final exam : Exam week
Sample midterm exam (Spring 2002)
Sample final exam (Spring 2002)
Midterm 1. Problem 1. Solution
Midterm 1. Problem 2-1. Solution
Midterm 1. Problem 2-2. Solution
Midterm 1. Problem 2-3. Solution
Midterm 1. Problem 3. Solution

Grading

Final Grade = Homework1 * 0.05 + Homework2 * 0.1 +
                    Homework3 * 0.1 + Homework4 * 0.1 +
                     Mid-term * 0.2 + Final * 0.2 + Mini Project * 0.2 +
                     Student portfolio * 0.05

Homeworks

	Points	Start date	Due date
Homework1	5	Jan 24	Feb 12
Homework 2	10	Feb 12	Feb 26
Homework 3	10	Feb 26	March 16
Homework 4	10	March 16	April 6

If you want to share comments or anything else related to the class please send an e-mail to Alex Doboli . Last updated Jan 31 2005