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- ECE 225 High-Speed Digital Integrated
Circuit Design UCSB, ECE, Winter 2024
- Instructor: Prof.
Kaustav Banerjee
kaustav (at)
ece.ucsb.edu Office: Harold Frank Hall (HFH)
4151 Phone: (805) 893-3337 Office Hour:
Flexible, appointment by email.
- Grader:
Ankit Kumar
ankitkumar (at) ece.ucsb.edu Office: HFH 2164
Office Hour: appointment by email.
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Classroom: ESB 1003 -
Schedule: Tue & Thu
4:00PM-5:50PM
- For more info, please click
HERE.
-Assignment 1 - Due Feb
23rd 5:00 PM via GradeScope
90 nm PTM Model
-Assignment 2 - Due Mar 8th 5:00 PM via GradeScope
Final Project Report Format: [1]
WORD [2]
LATEX
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Lecture 1 - Overview
Reference(s): 1. G.
E. Moore, "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits"
2. P.
Gelsinger, "Microprocessors for the New Millennium: hallenges,
Opportunities, and New Frontiers" 3. S.
Borkar, et. al, "Parameter Variations and Impact on Circuit and
Microarchitecture" |
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Lecture 2 - Discussion of
Project Topics |
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Lecture 3 - Review of CMOS
Design |
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Lecture 4 - Review of
Semiconductor Physics |
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Lecture 5 - MOSFET Scaling |
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References: 1.
W.
Cao, et al., "The Future Transistors," Nature, vol. 620, pp.
501-515, 2023. |
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Lecture 6 - Non-classical CMOS Devices |
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References(s): 1.
R. H. Yan, et al,
“Scaling the Si MOSFET: From Bulk to SOI to Bulk” IEEE Trans.
Elec. Dev., vol. 39, no. 7, 1704-1710 (1992). 2.
S. Rasouli,
et al., "Design optimization of FinFET Domino logic considering
the width quantization property". IEEE Trans. Elec. Dev., vol.
57, no. 11, 2934-2943 (2010). |
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Lecture 7 - Beyond CMOS
Devices: TFETs References: 1. Y. Khatami and K.
Banerjee, "Steep
Subthreshold Slope n- and p-type Tunnel-FET Devices for
Low-Power and Energy-Efficient Digital Circuits," IEEE
Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 56, No. 11, pp.
2752-2761, Nov. 2009. 2. W. Cao, et al. "Subthreshold-swing
physics of tunnel field-effect transistors". In AIP
Advances, Vol. 4, pp. 067141, 2014. 3. D. Sarkar, et al. "A
subthermionic tunnel field-effect transistor with an atomically
thin channel". Nature, Vol. 526, pp. 91-95, 2015. 4. W.
Cao, et al. "Designing
Band-to-Band Tunneling Field-Effect Transistors with 2D
Semiconductors for Next Generation Low-Power VLSI". In IEEE
International Electron Devices Meeting (IEEE, 2015). 5. W.
Cao, et al. "Is
Negative Capacitance FET a Steep-slope Logic Switch?". In
Nature Communications, 11, 196, pp. 1-8, January 10, 2020. |
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Lecture 8 - VLSI
Interconnects-I |
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References: 1. W. C. Elmore, "The
Transient Response of Damped Linear Networks" 2. W.
Nagen et al., "Interconnect-Power
Dissipation in a Microprocessor" 3. Suaya, et al, "Modeling
and Extraction of Nanometer Scale Interconnects: Challenges and
Opportunities" |
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Lecture 9 - VLSI
Interconnects-II |
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References: 1. A. Deutsch et al., "When
are Transmission-Line Effects Important for On-Chip
Interconnections?" 2. K. Banerjee and A. Mehrotra,
"Analysis
of On-Chip Inductance Effects for Distributed RLC Interconnects" 3.
K. Banerjee, et. al., "Interconnect
Modeling and Analysis in the Nanometer Era: Cu and Beyond" |
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Lecture 10 - Interconnect
Design under Thermal, Power, Reliability, & Variability
Constraints |
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References: 1. A. H. Ajami, et al., "Scaling
Analysis of On-Chip Power Grid Voltage Variations in Nanometer
Scale ULSI," Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal
Processing volume 42, pages 277–290 (2005). 2. A. H.
Ajami, et al., "Modeling
and Analysis of Non-Uniform Substrate Temperature Effects on
Global ULSI Interconnects," IEEE Transactions on
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol.
24, 6, 2005. 3. K. Banerjee et al., "A
Power-Optimal Repeater Insertion Methodology for Global
Interconnects in Nanometer Designs," IEEE TED, vol. 49, 11,
2002. 4. V. Wason and K. Banerjee, "A
probabilistic framework for power-optimal repeater insertion in
global interconnects under parameter variations" In
Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Low Power
Electronics and Design, pp. 131-136, 2005.
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Lecture 11 - Interconnect
Design under Thermal & Reliability Constraints / Power
Dissipation & Minimum Operation Voltage |
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References: 1. K. Banerjee
and A. Mehrotra,"Global
(Interconnect) Warming". In IEEE Circuits and Devices
Magazine, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 16-32, 2001. 2. S.
Borkar, "Low
power design challenges for the decade". In Proceedings of
the ASP-DAC 2001, pp. 293-296, 2001. 3. T. Kuroda, "CMOS
design challenges to power wall". In International
Microprocesses and Nanotechnology Conference, pp. 6-7, 2001. 4.
T. Sakurai, "Perspectives
of Low-Power VLSI's". In IEICE Trans. Electron, vol. E87-C,
2004. |
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Lecture 12 -Nanoscale Power
and Thermal Management: Self-consistent Thermal Profile
Estimation Design-Specific Metric
Optimization |
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References: 1. S. C. Lin, et al., "A
Self-Consistent Substrate Thermal Profile Estimation Technique
for Nanoscale ICs Part I: Electrothermal Couplings and Full-Chip
Package Thermal Model". IEEE TED, vol. 54, 12, pp.
3342-3350, 2007. 2. S. C. Lin, et al., "A
Self-Consistent Substrate Thermal Profile Estimation Technique
for Nanoscale ICs—Part II: Implementation and Implications for
Power Estimation and Thermal Management". IEEE TED, vol. 54,
12, pp. 3351-3360, 2007. 3. S. C. Lin, et al., "A
Design-Specific and Thermally-Aware Methodology for Trading-Off
Power and Performance in Leakage-Dominant CMOS Technologies".
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI)
Systems, vol. 16, 11, 2008. 4. S. C. Lin and K.
Banerjee, "Cool
Chips: Opportunities and Implications for Power and Thermal
Management". IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 55,
1, 2008. |
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Lecture 13 - BEOL
Applications of Graphene in Next-Generation ICs |
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References: 1. C. Xu, et. al., "Modeling,
Analysis, and Design of Graphene Nano-Ribbon Interconnects,"
IEEE TED, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 1567-1578, 2009. 2. J.
Jiang, et. al., "Intercalation
Doped Multilayer-Graphene-Nanoribbons for Next-Generation
Interconnects," Nano Letters, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1482-1488,
2017. 3. J. Jiang, et. al., "CMOS-Compatible
Doped-Multilayer-Graphene Interconnects for Next-Generation VLSI,"
IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), pp.
34.5.1-34.5.4, 2018. 4. K. Agashiwala, et. al., "Demonstration
of CMOS-Compatible Multi-Level Graphene Interconnects With Metal
Vias," IEEE TED, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 2083-2091, 2021. 5.
J. Kang, et. al., "On-chip
intercalated-graphene inductors for next-generation radio
frequency electronics," Nature Electronics, vol. 1, no. 1,
pp. 46-51, 2018. |
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Lecture 14 - 3D Integrated
Circuits |
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References: 1. K. Banerjee et al., "3-D
ICs: a novel chip design for improving deep-submicrometer
interconnect performance and systems-on-chip integration".
In Proceedings of IEEE, vol. 89, 5, pp. 602-633, 2001. 2.
C. Xu et al., "Compact
AC Modeling and Performance Analysis of Through-Silicon Vias in
3-D ICs". In IEEE TED, vol. 57, 12, pp. 3405-3417, 2010. 3.
J. Jiang et al., "Ultimate
Monolithic-3D Integration With 2D Materials: Rationale,
Prospects, and Challenges". In IEEE Journal of the Electron
Deivces Society, vol. 7, pp. 878-887, 2019. 4. D. Zhang
et al., "0.5T0.5R—An
Ultracompact RRAM Cell Uniquely Enabled by van der Waals
Heterostructures". In IEEE TED, vol. 68, 4, pp. 2033-2040,
2021. |
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Lecture 15 - Memory |
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References: 1. R. W. Mann et al. "Ultralow-power
SRAM technology". In IBM Journal of Research and
Development, vol. 47, pp. 553-566, 2003. 2. J. A. Mandelman
et al. "Challenges
and future directions for the scaling of dynamic random-access
memory (DRAM)" In IBM Journal of Research and Development,
vol. 46, pp. 187-212, 2002. 3. J. Akerman "Toward
a Universal Memory". In Science, vol. 308, pp. 508-510,
2005. 4. W. Cao et al. "Can
2D-Nanocrystals Extend the Lifetime of Floating-Gate Transistor
Based Nonvolatile Memory?" In IEEE TED, vol. 61, pp.
3456-3464, 2014. 5. S. Raoux et al. "Phase
change materials and phase change memory" In MRS Bulletin,
vol. 39, pp. 703-710, 2014. 6. D. Zhang et al. "0.5T0.5R—An
Ultracompact RRAM Cell Uniquely Enabled by van der Waals
Heterostructures". In IEEE TED, vol. 68, 4, pp. 2033-2040,
2021. |
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Lecture 16 - Cryogenic 2D-CMOS
Enabled Next-Generation High-Performance Large-Scale Quantum
Computing |
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References: 1. K. Agashiwala, et. al., "Advancing
High-Performance Large-Scale Quantum Computing using Cryogenic
2D-CMOS," IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting
(IEDM), pp. 3.3.1-3.3.4, 2023. |
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Lecture 17 - Metal-Gate
Work-Function Variability in Emerging Device Technologies |
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References: 1. H. F. Dadgour, et al., "Grain-Orientation
Induced Work Function Variation in Nanoscale Metal-Gate
Transistors—Part I: Modeling, Analysis, and Experimental
Validation," IEEE TED, vol. 57, 10, pp. 2504-2514, 2010. 2.
H. F. Dadgour et al., "Grain-Orientation
Induced Work Function Variation in Nanoscale Metal-Gate
Transistors—Part II: Implications for Process, Device, and
Circuit Design," IEEE TED, vol. 57, 10, pp. 2515-2525, 2010. |
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- Simulation software: (Manuals) - Circuit Netlist Simulator: HSpice - Analog Modeling:
Verilog-A - Waveform viewer:
CScope - Waveform viewer: AvanWaves - Circuit Layout Editor:
MAX - Schematic Capture Program:
SUE - Please do NOT print copies of these manuals!
- For other tools, see
Computer/Network Support
- To set up the environment for your
work, see
Environment Setup Guidance .
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