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Courses - Spring 2023
ENEE
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Site
ENEE640
Digital CMOS VLSI Design
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: ENEE303 and ENEE350; or students who have taken courses with comparable content may contact the department; or permission of instructor.
Review of MOS transistors: fabrication, layout, characterization; CMOS circuit and logic design: circuit and logic simulation, fully complementary CMOS logic, pseudo-nMOS logic, dynamic CMOS logic, pass-transistor logic, clocking strategies; sub system design: ALUs, multipliers, memories, PLAs; architecture design: datapath, floorplanning, iterative cellular arrays, systolic arrays; VLSI algorithms; chip design and test: full custom design of chips, possible chip fabrication by MOSIS and subsequent chip testing.
Jointly offered with ENEE459C. Credit only granted for ENEE640 or ENEE459C.