EECE575
Notices[edit]
- Welcome to all students who register this course.
Course Description[edit]
This course will provide an overview of the MOS transistor, circuit characterization and performance estimation. CMOS logic and structured design: electrical design of logic circuits, clocking strategies and design rules. CMOS systems and RISC architectures.
- Objectives:
- Ability to understand the functions and the properties of CMOS devices, combinational gates, and sequential circuits
- Ability to analyze the performance and power consumption of a digital VLSI circuit using proper device and interconnect models
- Ability to design functional units such as adders and multipliers using CMOS devices
- Ability to optimize a digital circuit with respect to different quality metrics such as cost, speed, power dissipation, and reliability
- Ability to use Cadence layout design tool and HSPICE for VLSI circuit design and analysis
- Topics:
- CMOS transistors and gates
- CMOS fabrication and manufacturing process
- Cadence and HSPICE tutorial
- Combinational/sequential logic gates
- Designing arithmetic blocks
- Dynamic CMOS logic
- Designing memory blocks
- Deep submicron issues
- Design verification
- Design for low power
- Packaging and I/Os
All course announcements, lecture slides, assignments, and projects will be made available on Blackboard, please frequently check the site and contact the instructor if there is any question.
Background Requirements[edit]
This class demands backgrounds in digital circuit design (EECE 351), computer architecture and organization (EECE 352), hardware design using Hardware Description Language (e.g., Verilog/VHDL) (EECE 573), and fundamentals of CMOS VLSI circuits (EECE 574).
Instructor[edit]
Prof. Zhanpeng Jin
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: zjin at binghamton dot edu (preferred)
Phone: 607-777-3363
Hours[edit]
- Lecture: Wednesday 6:00pm ― 9:00pm @ ECE Hugo Conference Room
- Office Hours: Wednesday 3:00pm ― 5:00pm @ ES-2306
Textbooks[edit]
- (Required) J. M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, and B. Nikolic, “Digital Integrated Circuits: a Design Perspective”, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.
- (Optional) N. Weste and David Harris, “CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective”, 4th edition, Addison-Wesley, 2011.
Quick Links[edit]
- Blackboard @ Binghamton.
- International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS).
- WWW Computer Architecture Page.
- Top 500 Supercomputer Sites.
- Timeline of Computing History.
- The Turing Archive for the History of Computing.
- The Modern History of Computing, by Copeland, B. Jack from Stanford.
- The History of Computing, by J. A. N. Lee from Virginia Tech.
- History of Computing, by Virginia Montecino from George Mason.