EE241: Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits
Spring, 1997
Instructor
Prof. Jan M. Rabaey , 511 Cory Hall, x3-8206, jan@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office hours: TuTh 5:00-6:30pm, 511 Cory Hall
TA
Varghese George, 550 Cory Hall, x3-1959, varg@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office hours: TuTh 2:00-3:00pm, 550 Cory Hall
Mail
To send broadcast messages to the complete class, use
ee241-all@walhalla.eecs.berkeley.edu
Course Description
This course aims to convey a knowledge of advanced concepts of circuit design
for digital LSI and VLSI components in state of the art MOS and BiCMOS
technologies.
Emphasys is on the circuit design, optimization, and layout of either very high speed,
high density or low
power circuits for use in applications such as micro-processors,
signal and multimedia processors, memory and periphery.
Special attention will devoted to the most important challenges facing
digital circuit designers today and in the coming decade,
being the mpact of scaling, deep submicron effects, interconnect, signal
integrity, power distribution and consumption, and timing.
This semester, special attention will be given to the design and
optimization of reconfigurable circuits. This will reflected in
both the lectures and the preferred projects.