McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing February 2007 ISBN-13: 9780071488396 |
Introduction to VLSI SystemsbyCarver Meadand Lynn Conway
Addison-Wesley Publishing December 1979 |
StaffProfessor Andreas G. Andreou, Barton Hall 400B, (410)-516-8361 andreou at jhu dot edu Teaching Assistant: Joseph Lin, Barton Hall 400, (410)-516-0258 linjh at jhu dot edu Course Logistics
Course EthicsHomework and laboratory assignments: Developing the ability to work within a group is certainly one of the objectives for this course. However, homework assignments, pre-lab write-ups and examinations must be done on your own. Please read here what you are supposed to do alone and how much you are allowed to collaborate. Textbooks The course will be taught from notes, and original material from books below. Another excellent reference/textbook is the Rabaey-Chandrakasan-Nicolic book.
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McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing February 2007 ISBN-13: 9780071488396 |
Introduction to VLSI SystemsbyCarver Meadand Lynn Conway
Addison-Wesley Publishing December 1979 |
Schedule and Syllabus
| Week | Lecture Topics/Handout | Reading Assignment | Laboratory Assignment |
| 1.1 |
Lectures 1 and 2 Introduction to VLSI Systems (pdf) |
Cramming more components onto integrated circuits (G. Moore, 1967) Science in an Exponential World (Szalay and Gray, 2006)Sicard/Delmas-Bendhia Chapter 1 1.1 to 1.7 |
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| Devices and Technology | |||
| 2.1 |
Lectures 3 and 4 Silicon CMOS Technology and Fabrication (pdf) |
Sicard/Delmas-Bendhia
Chapter 2 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.10 |
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| 3.1 |
Lecture 5 MOS Transistors and Models (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 3 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 |
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| 3.2 |
Lecture 6 The Digital Abstraction (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapters 2, 4 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
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| 4.1 |
Lecture 7 Circuit Delay and Power (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 4 4.4, 4.5
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| 4.2 |
Lecture 8 Local and Global Interconnects (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 5 5.1 to 5.10 and 5.12 |
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| 5.1 | Overview and summary of devices and technology | ||
| 5.2 | CAD tools |
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Systems Perspective |
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| 6.1 |
Lecture 9 Concurrent systems and parallel processing (pdf) |
Mead and Conway
Chapter 8 (pdf), Section 1 |
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| 6.2 |
Lecture 10 Highly concurrent structures with global communication (pdf) |
Mead and Conway Chapter 8, Section 4 |
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| 7.1 |
Lecture 11 Highly concurrent structures with local communication |
Cassidy and Andreou 2009 | |
| 7.2 |
Midterm Examination (Thursday March 12th) |
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| 8.1 |
Lecture 12 Sequential Structures and Clocks (pdf) |
Mead and Conway Chapter 3 (3.1-3.8) |
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| Circuits and Sub-system Design | |||
| 8.2 |
Lecture 13 State Holding Circuits (pdf) |
Sicard/Delmas-Bendhia Chapter 8 |
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| 9.1 |
Lecture 14 Memory arrays (pdf) |
Mead and Conway Chapter 8 (8.5 and 8.6) Mead and Rem 1979 (pdf) |
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| 9.2 |
Lecture 15 Arithmetic structures (pdf) |
Sicard/Delmas-Bendhia Chapter 7 |
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| 10.1 |
Lecture 16 Visual microprocessor (pdf) |
Mandolesi et.al 2004 (pdf) Mandolesi et.al. 2006 (pdf) DiFederico et.al. 2008 (pdf) |
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| 10.2 |
Lecture 17 Layout and Design Rules (pdf) |
Sicard/Delmas-Bendhia Appendix A |
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| 11.1 |
Final Project Discussion I (pdf) |
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| 11.2 |
Final Project Discussion II (pdf) |
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| 12.1 | Final Project Work | ||
| 12.2 | Final Project Work | ||
| 13.1 | Final Project Work | ||
| 13.2 | Class Presentation |
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Homework Assignments and solutions
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Homework #1:
Due February 5th Here is a tutorial on how to find articles with IEEE Explore! |
Solutions to Homework #1 |
| Homework # 2: Due February 12th | Solutions to Homework #2 |
| Homework #3 and mini-CAD project: Due March 5th | Solutions to Homework #3 |
| Final Project (pdf) |
CAD Laboratory and Project Resources
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Bibliography 1. Introduction to VLSI Systems, Carver Mead and Lynn Conway, Addison-Wesley, 1979. The original, prepublication version of this classic book can be found on Lynn Conway's web site (Mead-Conway draft textbook). 2. Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nicolic, Prentice Hall Electronics and VLSI Series, 2003. This is an excellent book for intermediate digital IC design (Rabaey-Chandrakasan-Nicolic book). VLSI ResourcesInternational Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) this meeting is held annually in San Francisco. This is the forum where advances in integrated circuits and systems get reported first to the public! To get your paper in this conference, you must sign your life that you will not make any disclosures of your work before this conference. Usually the place to be just the weekend and week after the Super Bowl! International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). The annual conference/forum of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) focuses more on technological innovations and devices. Find out what is the latest in fabrication technology, memory cells and sensors. International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and System Society (CAS) this meeting has a more broad audience, mostly academic with interests ranging from devices to circuits and systems as well as signal processing. The above society also have their corresponding journals: Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Transaction on Electron Devices and Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II. The above journals are available on-line through IEEE Explore. Access to this resource is free if you do it from JHU or through a VPN tunnel to JHU. Frequently Asked Questions Related JHU Links 520.773 Advanced Topics in Fabrication and Micro-engineering |
