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: Alex Russel, Barton 401, (410) 516 - 7488 alexrussellsa at gmail dot com Course Logistics
Course EthicsHomework and laboratory assignment 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 |
Lecture 3 Silicon CMOS Technology and Fabrication (pdf) |
Sicard/Delmas-Bendhia
Chapter 2 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.11 |
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| 3.1 |
Lecture 4 CMOS Technology revisited: design in CMOS, design rules (pdf) |
Sicard/Delmas-Bendhia Appendix A (pdf) |
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| 3.2 |
Lecture 5 The Digital Abstraction (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia
Chapter 2 |
Microwind Tools (zip) |
| 4.1 |
Lecture 6 Analog Abstraction MOS Transistor Models (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 3 |
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| 4.2 |
Lecture 7
Digital Abstraction Revisited The CMOS Inverter (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 4 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 |
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| 5.1 |
Lecture 8 Circuit Delay and Power
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Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 4 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 6 |
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| 5.2 |
Lecture 9 Local and Global Interconnects (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 5 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12 |
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| 6.1 |
Lecture 10 Globally concurrent systems that depend on global interconnects (pdf)
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| 6.2 |
Lecture 11 Complex gates revisited and simulation
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| 7.1 |
Lecture 12 Review session before midterm |
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| 7.2 |
Midterm Examination Lectures upto and including Chapter 5 (Lecture 9) (Midterm Solutions) Thursday March 25th |
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| 8.1 |
Lecture 13 Intro to Verilog/VHDL, basic gates revisited |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 6 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.11, 6.12 |
Verilog example (zip) |
| 8.2 |
Lecture 14 Sequential Circuits |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 8 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, |
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| 9.1 |
Lecture 15 Review of midterm and homework problems |
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| 9.2 |
Lecture 16 Memory Arrays (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 10 | |
| 10.1 |
Lecture 17 Analog circuits (pdf) |
Sicard/Bendhia Chapter 11 | |
| 10.2 |
Lecture 18 RFIDs (pdf) |
Chapter 3 (pdf
) from RFID Handbook by K. Finkenzeller |
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| 11.1 |
Lecture 19 Final Project Discussion (pdf) |
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| 11.2 |
Final Project Work
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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 2nd Here is a tutorial on how to find articles with IEEE Explore! |
Solutions to Homework #1 |
| Homework # 2: Due February 25th | Solutions to Homework #2 |
| Homework #3 and mini-CAD project: Due March 23rd | Solutions to Homework #3 |
| Final Project (pdf) Part I of final project report: Due April 27th Class presentation of team final projects: May 6th Part II of final project report: Due May 10th |
RFID chips example papers: (Choi_2007,
Usami_2003,
Takaragi_2001,
Fischer 2003) RFID Architecture (From Chapter 10 of RFID Handbook) RFID Coding and Modulation (From Chapter 6 of RDID Handbook) |
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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 Resources International 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 |
