EE241: Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits

Projects

To foster design innovation and creative thinking, a major part of the class grade is based on a design project. The idea of the project is to study one of the current "hot items" in digital circuit design and to propose, analyze and design a novel solution to one of those problems. The project is performed in groups of two and will span the complete semester.

Schedule

Final Presentations and Reports

Final project reports and poster presentations are due on Thursday, May 10 at 10am.  Please use the suggested outline from the class.

Final reports and presentation slides (in Powerpoint) should be posted on your project web pages.

Final presentations will be in BWRC (2108 Allston Way), front classroom, 1-5pm.

Schedule:

1:00-1:17 Radu Zlatanovici, Matthew Weng 

1:17-1:34 Lizhi Charlie Zhong, Hongjing Zou

1:34-1:46 Brian Dessent 

1:46-2:08 Tufan Karalar, Farinaz Koushanfar, Huifang Qin

2:08-2:25 Yinghua Li, Shengwei Ding

2:25-2:42 Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Mike Shuo-Wei Chen

2:42-2:59 Stephanie Augsburger, Michael Scott

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-3:32 Isaac Sever, Frank Gennari

3:32-3:49 Changchun Shi, Chen Chang

3:49-4:06 Sam Williams

4:06-4:23 Seth Hollar Justin Black

4:23-4:40 Naratip Wongkomet, Ben Wild

4:40-4:52 Socrates Vamvakos

4:52-5:09 David Redinger, Paul Chang


Midterm Project Reports

Midterm project reports and poster presentations are due on Thursday, March 15.
Midterm reports should be posted on your project web pages by 10am on Thursday, March 15.  They should be limited to 4-5 pages, font 12.

Midterm poster presentations will be in BWRC (2108 Allston Way), front classroom, 12:30-2pm
Your posters are should also be posted on your web pages by 10am on Thursday, March 15.

Reports and posters should have:

Title of the project/ your names and e-mail addresses 
Motivation
Problem statement
Possible solutions from literature
Proposed comparison/solution
Conditions/assumptions
Analysis (as presented in literature)
Outline of proposed design work
Conclusion
References

Projects

Tufan Karalar, Farinaz Koushanfar, Huifang Qin, A Comparative Study to Reduce the Power Consumption in Standby Mode while Preserving the State in CMOS Circuits

Stanley Bo-Ting Wang, Mike Shuo-Wei Chen, Investigation of Charge-Recycling Logic Families

Yinghua Li, Shengwei Ding, Sleep Mode with MTCMOS Circuit Design

David Redinger, Paul Chang, Techniques & Requirements for Polysilicon based OLED Display
Drivers

Stephanie Augsburger, Michael Scott, Reducing Power Through Surplus Timing Utilization

Lizhi Charlie Zhong, Hongjing Zou, Comparison of various leakage control techniques

Socrates Vamvakos, Issues in High-Speed Sampling Circuit Design

Isaac Sever, Frank Gennari, A Survey of Low Power Multiplier Architectures and Circuit Styles

Radu Zlatanovici, Matthew Weng, A Sub-Nanosecond 64-bit Parallel Adder 

Sam Williams, VIRAM-1 Vector Flag Register File

Changchun Shi, Chen Chang, An Investigation of Low Power, Fixed Throughput 12-bit Multiplier Design—Technology, Circuit, and Architecture

Naratip Wongkomet, Ben Wild, Overcoming power and area challenges for chipsets of next generation maskless lithography systems

Seth Hollar Justin Black, Low Power FSM to control Autonomous Micro Robotic Ants 

Brian Dessent Fully Dynamic Logic Blocks Using Multiple-Phase Clocks