Course Intro

Physics 476Motivation: Education in “modern electronics” is lacking

• Traditional EE very theoretical

• “pedagogical” courses aren’t useful for research, industrial practice or “invention”

Important to understand.

Even a Prius

“Special 476 course” on Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) “chips”

Modern Electronics for PhysicistsBias: Not “electronics for truck drivers”

• Every project should meet one of 3 criteria:

1. Publication worthy2. Directly useful for research3. Development stage for furthering

knowledge

At the end of the day, my passion is the following...

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Need measurements

Newphysics

Quark sector

Lepton sectorProp

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expts accel, reactor,g-2, e, etc.

Super B Factory, LHCb, BESIII, Rare K expts, …

LHC, ILC

mass and mixing,CPV, and LFV

Higgs boson massand couplings. New particle searches

Flavor mixing,CPV phases

LFV, CPV

UHE neutrinos

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Big and Small

HanoHano

AMBER

BESIII

Polarized Gamma Observatory

(PoGO)

AGIS

APT

Course Overview

week date1 12-Jan

14-Jan2 19-Jan

21-Jan3 26-Jan GSV away

28-Jan4 2-Feb

4-Feb 5 9-Feb

11-Feb6 16-Feb

18-Feb 7 23-Feb

25-Feb8 2-Mar

4-Mar9 9-Mar

11-Mar10 16-Mar

18-Mar11 23-Mar

25-Mar12 30-Mar GSV

1-Apr away13 3-Apr

5-Apr14 10-Apr

12-Apr15 17-Apr

19-Apr 16 24-Apr

26-Apr17 1-May

3-May18 13-May

Physics 475, equivalent or premission from instructorHorowitz & Hill: The Art of ElectronicsJohnson & Graham: High-Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black MagicAny time in WAT214 by appointmentvarner@phys.hawaii.eduMandatory -- must be completed prior to next lab session20% Exercises40% Final project20% Final presenation20% Final report

Intro to IC fabrication

Tolerance and robustness

Final Design Review (latest)

Course Syllabus: Physics 476, UH Spring Semester 2010

Instructor: Dr. Gary VarnerClass Hours: T R 9:00 - 10:15am; Lab T 12:30 - 1:20; R 12:30 - 3:30pm Watanabe 221

Lecture topics Laboratory topicsIntro to ASICs

Design specs/Deadline Manage

Schematic capture (I)

Bipolar vs. CMOS

ADC/Special circuit topics (II)

Intro to SPICE

Special circuit topics (I)

Special circuit topics (II)

Building blocks (I)

Schematic capture (III)

DAC/Special circuit topics (I)

Extra lab time

Large system design

computer resourcesCadence/ID Lab server Acct.

Ex.1: Tutorial 1Ex. 2: Tutorial 2

Ex. 0: The design viewpoint

Analog bandwidth

PowerDesign resources

Ideal Performance

BREAK

Clock/Power distrib. Theory

SPRING

Bipolar vs. CMOS

Design submission

email:Exercises:

Grading:

Prerequisite:

Thursday: Final Presentations -- 9:45 - 11:45 am

Office hours:

Project Theory (II)

Project Theory (I)MOSIS and Fab. Processes

Final Design Review Prep.The Success of Failures

Input coupling

Texts:

Final Design Review

Artwork generation

Project workProject work

Deadline Management (Rev) Project work

Ex. 11: Intro to Layout

Ex. 12: Layout optimization

Ex. 3: Tutorial 3

Conceptual Design Review

BREAK

Ex. 6: Specs

Ex. 10: Design proof

Specification Review

SPRING

Ex. 13: Floorplanning

Special ASIC-specific version

Extra lab timeExtra lab time

Ex. 4: Your design kit

Ex. 5: Basic hierachy build

Ex. 7: Simulation intro

Ex. 8: SPICE Convergence

Ex. 9: SPICE limitations

Impedance matching

1. Flexible – will cover topics as needed

2. Scheduling needs to be flexible

3. Project course (project = course)

5:00 LAPD5:30 general6:00 [Argonne]6:307:007:30 lecture lecture lecture8:00 prep lecture prep lecture prep8:30 PHYS272 prep PHYS272 prep PHYS2729:00 lecture lecture lecture9:30 Off. Hours PHYS476 Office PHYS476 Office

10:00 lecture hours lecture hours10:30 ANITA xFEL xFEL11:00 [Collab] mtg LAPD ASIC FEL 11:30 prep EE work science12:00 Lunch [EFI] Lunch12:30 Lunch PHYS476 Lunch Lunch13:00 ID Lab Lab PHYS47613:30 Facilities FEL LAPD Lab. ASIC14:00 AMBER PI's mtg work work14:30 Group Pixel det STURM Belle15:00 DAQ Group xTOP local15:30 iTOP mech Physics analysis16:00 PHYS476 Pixel det [Nagoya] Dept. meeting16:30 Lab work iTOP Colloq.17:00 prep prep fDIRC17:30 CRT mtg TG's 18:0018:3019:0019:3020:0020:3021:00 Belle221:30 PID22:00 [KEK]

Spring 2009FridayMonday Tuesday Weds Thurs

Facilitation -- MOSIS

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Next steps?• E-mail distribution list• Reference/useful information to be posted• Review schedule – probably going to need more

than the time listed• First priority is to choose a project (due next

Tuesday)– Drives choice of technology– Helps me choose supplemental material

• Will need to sign NDAs for MOSIS• Establish which computer going to use• Get set-up with an account on our server