CSE 493/593 Introduction to VLSI Electronics Fall 2013

Instructor:  Professor R. Sridhar, 338K Davis Hall , E-mail: rsridhar@buffalo.edu Office Hours: Tues 1:00pm-2:00pm; Wed 1:00pm-2:00pm

Teaching Assistant:  Shixiong Jiang  E-mail: shixiong@buffalo.edu; Off. Hrs: Thurs 7:00pm - 9:00pm 340 Bell

Pengzhan Yan E-mail: pyan2@buffalo.edu; Off. Hrs: Tues 5:30pm – 7:30pm 340 Bell

Lecture: Wednesday 6:30 PM - 9:10 PM, NSC 205

Scheduled Lab Hours: Monday 5pm - 7pm, Monday 7pm - 9pm and Thursday 5pm - 7pm in 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 circuits, incorporating into a VLSI chip. They should be able to design for low power and design for performance, work in small groups and bring together design components into a full custom chip.

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, data paths; timing issues
• Memory structures
• Emerging topics; Variability and Design for Manufacturing
• CMOS system design, Floor plan, Placement and routing, Project design

Learning Outcomes:

By completing this course, the students are expected to have obtained

· the knowledge of fundamentals of VLSI Design principles,

· experience of designing a full custom Integrated circuit chip working in a design team

· skills to communicate their design experience through a detailed report and a short presentation to the class

Text Book:

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

Reference Books:

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

Course Grading:

· Project (Completed project, report & demonstration) = 35 points; Homework = 7 points; Lab = 8 points; two exams, Exam 1 = 20 points; Quiz = 5 points; Exam 2 (cumulative) = 25 points

Grade Assignment: (Letter grades carry normal numerical values)

(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).  A passing grade must be obtained in each of the following components: a) design project, Homework & labwork combined and b) quiz, two exams combined, to get a passing grade in this course.

Curving may be applied if deemed appropriate by the instructor. Design of a full custom, fully verified VLSI chip is required. Quizzes may not be announced ahead. No makeup quizzes will be given. One quiz with the lowest score will be dropped. Homework is due at the beginning of the class when due, unless otherwise specified. No late homework will be accepted.

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/undergrad/policy_academic.php

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.