CSE 691 Advanced
Instructor: Professor R. Sridhar, 135 Bell Hall , E-mail: rsridhar@cse.buffalo.edu Office Hours: Tuesday 1pm-2pm
Lecture: Wednesday 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Bell 242
Advanced VLSI Design is a
course that deals with high performance, low power reliable VLSI Design.
It presents advanced topics in the design of VLSI Systems. Topics
covered include VLSI Circuit techniques and design methodologies for low power
applications, process variation and its impact on very deep submicron designs,
interconnects, clocking and synchronization, timing issues in digital
circuits, and memory & array structures. Emphasis will be on very
deep submicron CMOS designs, high speed design styles, timing, arithmetic
building blocks, impact of interconnects, signal integrity and power
consumption, with added focus on SoC designs.
Prerequisites: Digital Systems, Digital Electronics, Introductory
VLSI.
Reference Books:
- Digital Integrated Circuits, Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolic´. Second Edition, A Prentice-Hall, 2003
- Design of high-performance microprocessor circuits / Anantha Chandrakasan, William J. Bowhill, Frank Fox, Editors, IEEE Press, 2001
- Additional References: Research papers from leading Conferences and journals.
Grading: Letter grades carry the normal numerical values (90+ = A, 80+ = B, 70+ = C, 60+ = D). Curving may
be applied if deemed appropriate by the instructor. Plus/Minus grades will be
given. 30% Exam; 40% Homework
and Project; 30% Term paper and presentation.
Miscellaneous: A project will be assigned and is due at the end of
the semester. The project will incorporate high performance VLSI
principles. A term paper is also due at the end of the semester on a
current topic in VLSI and the student will give a presentation of that paper to
the class towards the end of the semester. The topic will be selected in
consultation with the Professor.
Technology Roadmap
2004 edition