EE485A Syllabus

Text: CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits & Systems Perspective, 4^th Edition by Weste & Harris

Lectures follow those provided on the supplementary web site to the text: http://www3.hmc.edu/~harris/cmosvlsi/4e/index.html

Week	Date	Topic	Reading	Problems Due
1	Mon, 19 Aug	Lecture 0: Course Intro	1.1-1.5
	Thurs, 22 Aug	“Silicon Run”; Lab Intro
	Fri, 23 Aug	Lecture 1: Circuits & Layout	1.5-1.6, 1.8-1.12	1.1, 1.5, 1.6a
2	Mon, 26 Aug	Lecture 2: Design Flow (MIPS Example)	1.6-1.9	1.10, 1.11, 1.13
	Thurs, 29 Aug	Lab
	Fri, 30 Aug	Lecture 3: Transistor Theory	2.1-2.3	1.18, 1.19
3	Mon, 2 Sep	Labor Day (No Class)
	Tues, 3 Sep  (Mon. schedule)	Lecture 4: Nonideal Transistors	2.4	1.17, 2.1, 2.4, 2.5
	Thurs, 5 Sep	Lab
	Fri, 6 Sep	Lecture 5: DC & Transient Response	2.5, 4.1-4.3	2.3, 2.7, 2.8, 2.11
4	Mon, 9 Sep	catch up	4.1-4.3	2.16, 2.17, 4.1
	Thurs, 12 Sep	Lab
	Fri, 13 Sep	Lecture 5A: Capacitance Optimization	4.1-4.3	4.2, 4.3
5	Mon, 16 Sep	Lecture 6: Logical Effort	4.4-4.5	4.3, Examples 4.7&4.9
	Thurs, 19 Sep	Lab
	Fri, 20 Sep	Lecture 7: Power	5.1-5.3	4.5, 4.9, 4.11
6	Mon, 23 Sep	Review/Catch up		5.1, 5.2, 5.5
	Thurs, 26 Sep	Exam
	Fri, 27 Sep	Lecture 8: Simulation	8.1-8.5
7	Mon, 30 Sep	SPICE Modeling (meet in Lab)
	Thurs, 3 Oct	---
	Fri, 4 Oct	SPICE Modeling (meet in Lab)
8	Mon, 7 Oct	SPICE Modeling
	Thurs, 10 Oct	Lab
	Fri, 11 Oct	Lab
9	Mon, 14 Oct	Columbus Day
	Thurs, 17 Oct	Lecture 9: Combinatorial Circuit Design	9.1-9.2	8.1, 8.4, 8.5
	Fri, 18 Oct	Lecture 10: Circuit Families	9.2-9.6	9.3, 9.5, 9.7
10	Mon, 21 Oct
	Thurs, 24 Oct	Lab
	Fri, 25 Oct
11	Mon, 28 Oct	Review
	Thurs, 31 Oct	Lab
	Fri, 1 Nov	Exam II
12	Mon, 4 Nov
	Thurs, 7 Nov	Lab
	Fri, 8 Nov
13	Mon, 11 Nov	Veteran’s Day
	Thurs, 14 Nov	Lab
	Fri, 15 Nov
14	Mon, 18 Nov
	Thurs, 21 Nov	Lab
	Fri, 22 Nov
15	Mon, 25 Nov
	Thurs, 28 Nov	Thanksgiving
	Fri, 29 Nov
16	Mon, 2 Dec
	Thurs, 5 Dec	Lab
	Fri, 6 Dec