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The document outlines the lesson plan for the course CSE 411: VLSI Design taught in the fall 2014 semester. It includes details of the 14 week course schedule covering topics in VLSI design from introduction to layout design rules through CMOS subsystem design and sequential circuits. Assessment will be based on quizzes, class participation, a midterm exam, and a final exam weighted towards the final.
This is a 3 sentence summary of the document:
The document outlines the lesson plan for the course CSE 411: VLSI Design taught in the fall 2014 semester. It includes details of the 14 week course schedule covering topics in VLSI design from introduction to layout design rules through CMOS subsystem design and sequential circuits. Assessment will be based on quizzes, class participation, a midterm exam, and a final exam weighted towards the final.
This is a 3 sentence summary of the document:
The document outlines the lesson plan for the course CSE 411: VLSI Design taught in the fall 2014 semester. It includes details of the 14 week course schedule covering topics in VLSI design from introduction to layout design rules through CMOS subsystem design and sequential circuits. Assessment will be based on quizzes, class participation, a midterm exam, and a final exam weighted towards the final.
This is a 3 sentence summary of the document:
The document outlines the lesson plan for the course CSE 411: VLSI Design taught in the fall 2014 semester. It includes details of the 14 week course schedule covering topics in VLSI design from introduction to layout design rules through CMOS subsystem design and sequential circuits. Assessment will be based on quizzes, class participation, a midterm exam, and a final exam weighted towards the final.
Office/Room: D 404 Department of Computer Science and Engineering House # 52/1, Road # 4/A, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1209. Consultation/Contact time: Available time of the instructor will be posted on the notice board outside room D 404.
MOS Transistor Theory: Threshold Voltage, Basic DC Equations, Second Order Effects, MOS Models, NMOS Inverters, DC Characteristics of Complementary CMOS Inverter , Static load MOS inverters
Circuit Characterization and Performance Estimation: Resistance and Capacitance
Estimation, Switching Characteristics, Power Dissipation, Yield and Reliability
CMOS Circuit and Logic Design: Basic Physical Design of Simple Logic Gates, CMOS Logic Structures, Clocking strategy - single phase, two phase and four phase
CMOS Subsystem Design: Data path operations - addition/subtraction, comparators,
parity generators, zero/one detectors, binary counters; Boolean Operators - ALUs, Shifters Sequential Circuits: Static and Dynamic Flip-Flops, Programmable Logic Array, Memory Elements - Read/Write Memory, Read Only Memory; Control - Finite State Machines, Control Logic Implementation Teaching method: Lectures, lab works, assignments, interactive sessions
Prerequisites: ECE 303
Basic text(s):
CMOS VLSI Design – A Circuits and Systems Perspective (third edition); Neil H.E. Weste, David Harris, Ayan Banerjee; Pearson Education Inc. 2006.
Reference text(s):
Basic VLSI Design (third edition); Douglas A. Pucknell, Kamran Eshraghian; PHI Learning Private Limited, 2010.
Additional reading material: Powerpoint slides & PDF provided by the teacher
Lecture Plan:
Work Lecture Topic Reading assignment assignment
Introduction to VLSI Design Powerpoint slides and
Week 1 examples provided in Stick Diagrams the class Powerpoint slides, Quiz 1 Stick Diagrams MOS Models Reference Text - Week 2 chapter 1: topics 1.3, Mask Layout 1.4 1.7, 1.8 Silicon Semiconductor Powerpoint slides, Week 3 Technology Basic Text - chapter 3: Quiz 2 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 Basic CMOS Technology Powerpoint slides & Layout Design Rules PDF given in the class Week 4 Threshold Voltage, Basic DC Powerpoint slides & Equations PDF given in the class Basic Text Chapter 2: MOS Transistor Theory: I-V topics 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4 Week 5 Characteristics, C-V Characteristics, Non-ideal I-V Quiz 3 Effects MOS DC Transfer Characteristics Basic Text Chapter 2: Week 6 topic 2.5 Noise Margin Pass Transistor DC Characteristics Circuit Characterization and Basic Text Chapter 4: Performance Estimation topics 4.1, 4.2 4.5 Week 7 Resistance and Capacitance Estimation
Mid-term Exam Switching Characteristics, Power Basic Text Chapter 4: Dissipation topics 4.4 Week 8 Yield and Reliability
Basic Physical Design of Simple Powerpoint and PDF
Week 9 Logic Gates provided by the course teacher CMOS Logic Structures Quiz 4 Clocking strategy - single Powerpoint and PDF Week 10 phase, two phase and four provided by the course phase teacher
CMOS Subsystem Design
Data path operations Week 11 addition/subtraction Basic Text Chapter 8 Quiz 5
comparators, parity generators
zero/one detectors binary counters Week 12 Basic Text Chapter 8 ALUs, Shifters Sequential Circuits Quiz 6 Week 13 Static and Dynamic Flip-Flops Basic Text Chapter 7 Programmable Logic Array Memory Elements - Powerpoint and PDF Read/Write Memory provided by the course teacher Week 14 Read Only Memory Control - Finite State Machines Control Logic Implementation Assessment methods:
Component Weight/percentage
Quizzes 20%
Class participation 10%
Assignments n/a
Term Paper n/a
Presentation n/a
Midterm 20%
Final 50%
Total 100%
Grading system:
Grade Numeric Grade Letter Grade Point 80% and above A+ 4.00 75% to less than 80% A 3.75 70% to less than 75% A- 3.50 65% to less than 70% B+ 3.25 60% to less than 65% B 3.00 55% to less than 60% B- 2.75 50% to less than 55% C+ 2.50 45% to less than 50% C 2.25 40% to less than 45% D 2.00 Less than 40% F 0.00
