High-Speed and Low-Power VLSI  (ELEC-5801)

  Winter 2016

Note

14 Feb 2016: Assignment 2 posted

Instructor

        Maitham Shams
        Office Hours: Tuesday            5:30-7 pm
                              Thursday          5:30-7 pm
                              Or after the lecture
                              Or by appointment
                              Or whenever you catch me

Lectures

        ME-4342:     Tue       7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
                             Thu       7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Course Outline

        High-speed and low-power CMOS VLSI techniques covering the low and high levels of abstraction.   

1.  Transistor Level
2. Switch Level
3. Logic Gates Level
4. Module Level
5. System Level
   

References

•  Jan Rabaey, Anatha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, Second Edition, Prentice Hall,  2003 (this is much different than first edition of 1996)
• Neil Weste and David Harris, CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Fourth Edition, Addison Wesley, 2011.
  
• Various journal and conference papers given during the term
• Class Notes
  

 Prerequisites

• Knowledge of VLSI at the level of BSc
  
• Some knowledge of HDL and VLSI tools, like Verilog, HSpice, Cadence, Synopsis
• Agreement of the instructor
  

Marking Scheme

           

Items	Mark
Assignments	40-50%
Quizes	20-30%
Final Exam	30%
TOTAL	100%

 

 Lecture Notes are supplied in class

1. MOSFET
2. CMOS Logic Gates
   

Assignments

• Assignment 1   due 28 January 2015
  
• Assignment 2   due 3 March 2016
  
• Assignment 3   due 29 March 2016
  
• Assignment 4   due 25 April 2016
  

Sample Exams

• Final Exam Sample
  

   

Presentations

    

• Presentations Marking Scheme
  

Introduction	Background	Technique	Results	Conclusions	Clarity	Fluency	Slides	Timing	Questions	TOTAL
How well the topic or the problem is introduced pointing out its motivation and significance	How well the background material needed to comprehend the topic is presented	How well, detailed,  and clearly the method is described	How well the results are presented, discussed, and commented	summary, strong points, weaknesses, future directions,	How clearly, loudly, and passionately is the presentation overall	How fluent is the presenter in talking and constructing sentences (not reading from slides)	Visual appearance and organization of slides:  5 points per slides and lots of clear pictures	How well presenter adheres to allocated time of 15 minutes	How well questions from audience are answered	Overall mark
10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	100

• Give sufficient introduction, explain the significance of the topic, discuss the method and results, and end with conclusions and the future trend.

                 How to Give a Good Talk


Important Dates

      

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