CSE 497/597         Intro to VLSI Electronics        Fall 2003

Instructor: Professor R. Sridhar, 135 Bell Hall, E-mail: rsridhar@cse.buffalo.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday, 4:15 PM - 6:15 PM 

Teaching Assistants: Ms. Dan Zhao, E-mail: danzhao@cse.buffalo.edu 
Ms. Lushan Liu, E-mail: lliu2@cse.buffalo.edu 
Mr. Venkatnarayanan Krishnan, E-mail: vk24@cse.buffalo.edu

Lecture: Wednesday 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM , NSC 222

Scheduled Lab Hours: Monday 5 PM -7 PM (S1), Monday 7 PM - 9 PM (S2), Thursday 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM (S3) and Thursday 7:00 PM -9:00 PM (S4) (tentative), 340 Bell Hall

Topics:

• Introduction to VLSI; design metrics
  
• MOS Devices, CMOS Inverter
• Combinational logic, layout, design rules
• Manufacturing process; 
• Simulation; CAD tools
• Low Power design strategies
• CMOS inverter - the dynamic view
  
• Logic Styles; Dynamic CMOS logic
  
• Timing and clock synchronization, pipelining
• Static, Dynamic  sequential circuits
• Deep sub-micron designs; design for performance
• Wires; Coping with Interconnects 
• Adders, Multipliers, datapaths; timing issues
  
• Memory structures
• CMOS system design, Floor plan, Placement and routing, Project design

Text Book:

• Digital Integrated Circuits, Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolic´. Second Edition, A Prentice-Hall, 2003

Reference Books:

• Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A Systems Perspective, by Weste and Eshraghian, Second edition, Addison Wesley, 199
• Modern VLSI Design, Systems-on-Chip Design, Prentice Hall, Third Edition, 2002

Course Grading:

• Project (Completed project, report & demonstration) = 45 points; Homework = 15 points; One mid-term Exam = 30 points Quiz = 10 points

(91-100 = A, 89-90 = A-, 87-88 = B+, 81-86= B, 79-80 = B-, 77-78 = C+, 71-76 = C, 66-70 = C-, 60-65 = D, 1-59 = F).

Curving may be applied if deemed appropriate by the instructor. Design of a full custom, fully verified VLSI chip is required.

All academic work must be your own. Collaboration, usually evidenced by unjustifiable similarity in any graded work, is never allowed. After an appropriate informal review, if any students are found in violation of maintaining academic integrity, sanctions will be imposed, which can be as severe as receiving an F in the course. Especially flagrant violations will be considered under formal review proceedings, which can call for harsher sanctions including expulsion from the University. If you ever have any questions or concerns regarding the policy, particularly as it relates to this course, see your instructor.   The departmental statement on academic integrity is posted at http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/Academic_Integrity.html
 

It is your responsibility to maintain the security of your computer accounts and your written work. Do not share passwords with anyone, nor write your password down where it may be seen by others. Do not change permissions to allow others to read your course directories and files. Do not walk away from a workstation without logging out. These are your responsibilities. In groups that collaborate inappropriately, it may be impossible to determine who has offered work to others in the group, who has received work, and who may have inadvertently made their work available to the others by failure to maintain adequate personal security  In such cases, all will be held equally liable.
 
 

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