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.
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.