EE241:Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits

Spring, 2000

TuTh 2-3:30pm 203 McLaughlin

Announcements

(4/11) HSPICE tip for transmission line simulation is posted.
(2/16) Some HSPICE tips are posted. Please check if it helps you.
(2/15) TSMC 0.25-um and 0.35-um HSPICE models have been modified. Please download the new versions and resimulate your homework problems. Reason of the revision
(2/15) The Term Project link page is up. Please take a look and double check everything. Some group forgot to send their URL, some others have virus in their .doc file. Please take care of them asap. Thanks.

Instructor

Prof. Borivoje Nikolic, 570 Cory Hall, x3-9297, bora@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office hours: TuTh 3:30-5pm, 570 Cory Hall.

TA

Yun Chiu

Mail

To send broadcast messages to the complete class, use ee241-students@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu
The class news-group can be reached at news:ucb.class.ee241

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 technologies. Emphasis 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 impact of scaling, deep submicron effects, interconnect, signal integrity, power distribution and consumption, and timing.
This semester, special attention will be given to the following topics: circuitry for digital radio, timing, arithmetic building blocks, and impact of interconnect. This will reflected in both the lectures and the preferred projects.