Course Logistics
Time and Place
Lectures: Hodson 213, TuTh 3.00 p.m. - 4.15 p.m.
Lab work: Barton Lab, During allocated class times and at your own time.
Teaching Assistant
TBD
Office Hours: TBD
Grading
Mini Projects and Laboratory Assignments (40%)
Midterm (20%)
Final project and written report (30%)
Class Participation (10%)
Mini projects and laboratory assignments are due on Thursday (to be handed in before lecture). Late work will have an automatic 50% grade reduction. Work that is more than 1 week late will not be accepted and will not be graded.
Course Ethics
Mini projects and laboratory assignments: Developing the ability to work within a group is certainly one of the objectives for this course. However, 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.
Course Website
www.ece.jhu.edu/~andreou/216
Textbooks
The course will be taught from a good book on CMOS design with emphasis on practical issues and physical layout by Sicard/Delmas-Bendhia. The seminal book by Mead and Conway is also a good introduction to VLSI. Today integration has moved beyond the 6um NMOS technology but the key ideas in there are as relevant today as they were 30 years ago. Drafts of the book in electronic form can be found on Lynn Conway's website here; (the last draft V3 iis pretty much what you have in the published book).
Basics of CMOS Cell Design
by Etienne Sicard and Sonia Delmas-Bendhia
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
February 2007
ISBN-13:9780071488396
Introduction to VLSI Systems
by Carver Mead and Lynn Conway
Addison-Wesley Publishing
December 1979
ISBN-10: 0201043580
ISBN-13: 978-0201043587