CSE 493/593 Introduction to VLSI Electronics Fall 2025

Instructor:  Professor R. Sridhar, E-mail: rsridhar@buffalo.edu Office Hours: Wednesday 1:00-3:00pm 338K Davis Hall

Teaching Assistants:  Aryan Pandey; Email: aryanpan@buffalo.edu;

Tyler D’Angelo; Email: tddangel@buffalo.edu Off. Hours: During the Lab hours

Lecture: Wednesday 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Talbert 107

Scheduled Lab Hours: A1: Monday 5:00pm-7:00pm A2: Tuesday 7:00pm-9:00pm 340 Bell Hall

Course Objectives:

This is an introductory course in VLSI Systems and Design. At the completion of this course, a student should be able to design and analyze digital designs, incorporating into a VLSI chip. They should be able to design for low power and design for high performance, work in small groups and bring together design components into a full custom chip.

Text Book:

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

Reference Books:

• CMOS VLSI Design: Circuits and Systems Perspective, by N Weste and D. Harris, Fourth edition, Addison Wesley, 2010
• Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools, Eric Brunvand, Addison Wesley, 2009

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