ce783: Advanced VLSI Design

Course Information

Project

Lecture Notes, Course Description, and Tentative Schedule

Exams

Office Hours

Last updated: Sunday, September 09, 2007

Course Information

Instructor: Shaahin Hessabi (E-mail: hessabi@sharif.edu)

Prerequisite: ce353 (VLSI Design)

Textbook: Neil Weste and David Harris, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A Systems Perspective, third edition. Adisson-Wesley, 2004.

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Credits: 3 Units

Grading: Grade will be based upon: (1) Midterm exams (30%), (2) Projects (30%+5%), (4) Final exam (40%).
Depending on your choice, the project can be 15%, and the exams will be scaled up.

For passing the course, three conditions must be met:
    a) total grade greater than 50%, 60 %, and 70% for B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. students, respectively;
    b) obtaining at least 40% of final exam's maximum grade;
    c) obtaining at least 40% of final project's maximum grade.

Project

Lecture Notes, Course Description, and Tentative Schedule

Lecture notes do not necessarily cover all the topics discussed in class, so it is recommended that you make a hardcopy from the lecture note which is supposed to be presented in class a few days before the class date, and modify it in class.

Schedule

Lecture Topic

Week 1

Lecture 1: Overview of VLSI Design                      computer vs. car
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Week 2

Lecture 2: Trends in ULSI Technology for the Next 15 Years
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Week 3

Lecture 3: CMOS Gates and Capacitance
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Week 4

Lecture 4: CMOS Fabrication
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Fabrication Process

Week 5

Lecture 5: MUXes, Latches, Flip-Flops & Layout
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Lecture 6: Circuit and System Representations
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Week 6

Lecture 7: CMOS Transistor Theory
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Week 7

Lecture 8: Resistance and Capacitance Calculation for Transistors
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Week 8

Lecture 9: DC and Transient Response

Week 9

Lecture 10: Logical Effort

Lecture 11: Wires

Week 10

Lecture 12: Combinational Circuits

Week 11

Lecture 13: Circuit Families

Week 12

Lecture 14: Circuit Pitfalls and Reliability

Week 13

Lecture 15: Sequential Circuits

Week 14

Lecture 16: ASIC Technology, Flow, and Cost Evaluation

Lecture 17: Power Estimation

Week 15

Lecture 18: Pads

Exams
Midterm exams
First: Sunday 9th of Ordibehesht, 10:30 AM- 12:30 PM. Exam covers lectures 1-9
Second: Sunday, 13th of Khordad, 10:30 AM- 12:30 PM. Place: Ebn-Sina building, #18. Exam covers the topic “logical effort”.

Final exam: Saturday, 26th of Khordad, 2:30 PM.
Exam is closed-book, and covers lectures 5, 8, 10-15, 17

Office Hours

Saturdays and Sundays: 1:30-3 PM, Mondays: 10:30 -11:45 AM
Please make an appointment by email (hessabi@sharif.edu) if consultation at a different time is needed.