EE241: Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits

Topics and Schedule

1. Fundamentals - Technology Roadmap and Scaling - Devices and Models - scaling (1.5 weeks)
2. Design techniques deepsubmicron CMOS - HIGH SPEED (3 weeks)
•  Static CMOS, transistor sizing, buffer design, high-speed CMOS design styles, dynamic logic
3. Design techniques for LOW POWER (2 weeks)
• analysis of power consumption sources
• power minimization at the technology, circuit and architecture levels
4. Arithmetic building blocks (2 weeks)
   • Adders
   • Multipliers
5. Driving interconnect, high-speed signaling (2 weeks)
6. Timing (2 weeks)
• Timing analysis, flip-flop/latch design, clock skew, clocking techniques, self-timed design
• Clock generation and distribution, phase-locked loops
7. Memory design (2 weeks)
8. Design of array structures - FPGAs and reconfigurable logic (1 week)
9. Design for test (1 lecture)