ECE 194BB/594BB Fall 2009

University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

VLSI for Computer Engineering

ECE 194BB/594BB Fall 2010

Instructor: Prof. Luke Theogarajan

Schedule: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00 - 3:15 p.m., ESB 1003

Final Exam: Wednesday, Dec. 8, 4pm - 7pm, ESB1003

Course Information:

Introduction to the design and implementation of large-scale digital systems using CMOS VLSI: Basics of device and circuit level optimization of digital building blocks;MOS device models including Deep Sub-Micron effects; Circuit design styles for logic, arithmetic, and sequential blocks;Low-power design;Interconnect models and parasitics, device sizing and logical effort, timing issues (clock skew and jitter), and active clock distribution techniques; Memory architectures; technology and scaling; VLSI implementation styles- full custom to standard cell design; design flows and associated EDA tools; design verification; design for fabrication testing; hardware description languages (both analog & digital) (Verilog & AMS); power, area and delay optimizations; clocking schemes; clocked circuits such as domino; power distribution and dissipation; I/O and packaging. Extensive use of CAD tools The class requires the completion of a final project.

Prerequisites:

This is primarily geared for CE students but EE students are also welcome. Must have completed ECE 2ABC.

Syllabus:

• Syllabus

Textbook:

Required : CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (4th Edition) by Neil H. E. Weste and David Harris

Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD tools by Erik Brunvand

TA:

Chin-Hsuan (Jennifer) Chen, chinhsuan_chen@ece.ucsb.edu

Office Hour:

TInstructor: Fridays, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

TA: Thursdays, 12:00pm - 1:30pm @ ECI