Master Course Description No: EE 476 Title: VLSI I Credits: 5

UW Course Catalog Description Coordinator: Josephine Ammer, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

Goals: 1.Develop a fairly deep understanding of static and dynamic CMOS technologies. 2.Give the students extensive experience with industry-standard computer-aided design tools

Topics: 1.Introduction to CMOS;

2.CMOS inverter design

3.Design of Static Logic Circuits

4.CMOS Switch Logic Design

5.Design of Synchronous Logic

6.Design of dynamic and domino circuits

Textbooks: Rabaey, Chandrakasan, and Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits, A Design Perspective Reference Texts: Smith, HDL Chip Design; Weste and Harris, CMOS VLSI Design: a Circuits and Systems Perspective

Course Structure: There are 5 hours of lecture per week, plus extensive computer laboratory time. The first five weeks of the quarter give the students a comprehensive view of the design and analysis of static CMOS digital integrated circuits. This prepares them for the second half of the quarter that includes extensive individual design projects using static CMOS. Meanwhile, in lecture, students learn to design digital integrated circuits using a variety of other MOS technologies, ranging from pseudo n-MOS to switch logic and a variety of dynamic logic families, including domino.

Design Projects: 1.CMOS Inverter Design

2.Design of a Complex Static CMOS Cell typically containing

between 12 and 15 inputs

3.Static CMOS Cell Library Design

1.inverter

2.2- through 5-input NAND

3.2- through 4-input NOR

4.edge-triggered D flip-flop

4.Static CMOS Design Project

1.example: elevator controller

2.example: traffic light controller for a complex interchange

EE 476 VLSI I

Introduction to digital integrated circuits. CMOS devices and manufacturing technology. CMOS inverters and gates. Propagation delay noise margins power dissipation. Sequential circuits. Arithmetic Interconnect memories. Design methodologies.

What will you learn? •Understanding, designing, and optimizing digital circuits •with respect to different quality metrics:

-cost -speed -power dissipation -reliability

General overview of the design hierarchy