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EE
564: Digital Integrated Circuits
Spring 2001 Course Syllabus
Prerequisite:
EE 461, engineering standing, and a
desire to learn what goes on inside digital integrated circuits.
Students are expected to have some knowledge of semiconductor devices and
transistor-level circuit design and be familiar with a SPICE simulation program.
Required Text:
K. Martin, Digital Integrated
Circuit Design, 2000, ISBN 0-19-512584-3
Supplementary Text:
Weste and
Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, 2nd Ed., 1993,
ISBN 0-201-53376-6
Horenstein, Microelectronic Circuits
and Devices, 2nd Ed., 1996, ISBN 0-13-701335-3, TK7874.H675
Class Website:
This course
will make extensive use of the internet, and considerable material
such as the class syllabus, homework assignments, project descriptions, lecture
notes, etc. will be available through the Web at www.engr.uky.edu/~ee564/.
Please use this at your convenience and let me know if there is anything
missing.
Computer Usage:
The modern
IC industry makes extensive use of CAD/EDA software for circuit design, and in
this course you will learn some of the basic tools available to circuit
designers. Through tutorials and
homework assignments, you will learn and use several of the Mentor
Graphics applications for schematic capture, digital and analog simulation, and
circuit layout. You will each be assigned an account on the server that hosts
this software which can be accessed via the Unix terminals and PCs (through
Xterm sessions) around the engineering campus.
Step-by-step instructions for logging in and working in the Unix
environment will be provided.
Class Email List:
ee564@enrg.uky.edu
is an alias that will go to everyone in the class, including instructors and TA.
ee564i@engr.uky.edu is an alias that
will go only to the instructors and the TA.
Send questions to this address.
Objective:
This
course provides students with an understanding of the electrical properties and
performance of CMOS devices for digital integrated circuits and their role in
the VLSI industry. Students learn
to analyze, design and simulate a variety of fundamental digital circuits,
including logic and memory circuits, using modern CAD tools.
Upon
completion of this course the student should demonstrate the ability to:
- Explain
the basic operation and structure of MOSFET devices.
- Describe
the primary steps in the integrated circuit fabrication process.
- Identify
the layout considerations of integrated circuits.
- Design
transistor-level logic circuits in several different logic families (e.g.
NMOS, CMOS)
- Evaluate
a MOS circuit in terms of the design considerations of static
characteristics, dynamic characteristics, power, area, and fabrication
complexity.
- Know
the fundamental operation and design constraints of ROM, SRAM, and DRAM
- Work
with a team to design, simulate, and report on a digital circuit design
project.
- Use
modern IC software to design and simulate digital circuits.
Attendance and Conduct in Class:
Students are expected to attend class
and be bright and cheerful with lots of questions. It will be hard to do well in this class without attending
the lectures. It is the student’s
responsibility to get notes and handouts for any missed class.
Makeup exams for excused absences will be oral exams given after the
normal exam date. Oral exams will
not be fun for either one of us, so try not to miss exams.
Grading
Grades will be based on
homework, design assignments, weekly quizzes, four midterm tests, and a final
design project. Overall grades will
be normalized and assigned to a standard curve with the following component
contributions:
15%
Homework (8)
20%
Design Assignments (3)
10%
Quizzes (10)
30%
Exams (2)
25%
Design Project and Report (takes place of Final Exam)
Homework:
Several problem sets will be given as
homework, which will be due by 5pm on Thursday, one week after it was assigned.
Tentative homework due dates are listed on the Course Outline.
Students are encouraged to work together on homework as long as each
student tries to complete all of the problems on his own.
Coping will not be tolerated. Everyone
must turn in individual homework, and grades will be based more on effort than
on correct answers. Homework must
be “neat” and easy to read or your grade will be penalized.
Homework solutions will be posted in the library or on the class website.
Design Assignments:
There will be three extended homework
assignments that focus on the design of digital integrated circuits using CAD
tools. Students will have two weeks
to complete design assignments, although tests and/or normal homework may be
assigned within those two weeks.
Quizzes
Quizzes covering material from recent lectures will be randomly given
throughout this course. A total of
12 quizzes will be given with only 10 counting toward your final grade (i.e.,
the lowest two scores will be dropped).
Exams:
There will be two exams in this course
on the dates listed in the course outline. Exams will cover material presented in lecture and the
textbook and may include material from homework and design assignments.
There will be no ‘Final Exam’, but design project presentations will
be made during the normal final exam period.
Design Project:
A design project involving the use of CAD tools to fully design a custom
digital integrated circuit will be assigned later in the semester.
Students will be required to complete the project, write a brief design
project report, and give a short presentation demonstrating their design.
This will be a group assignment with teams of 3 or 4 students. Details about the project and report and presentation format
will be given later in the semester.
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