EE241: Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits Spring 2006 MoWe 2:00-3:30pm, 203 McLaughlin

Announcements

FINAL IS POSTED (click here to get it)

Week 16:

• Two offerings of take-home final (see notes of lecture 26)
• Final project presentation schedule posted. Please check!

Week 15:

• Mo: Memory; We: Test
• Assignment 4 was due Su April 30!

Week 14:

• Memory
• Business as usual
• Announcement: Final project presentations will be held on Tu May 9 2-5pm in Dwinelle 127 (which is a video capturing equipped room (http://ets.berkeley.edu/Teleconferencing/Videoconferencing/)

Week 13:

• No Lectures
• Assignment 4 posted.

Week 12:

• Business as usual ...
• But, some important notes:
  • NO LECTURES NEXT WEEK
  • Moved to last week of classes (instead of project presentations)
  • Project presentations will be organized as one continuous run on Tuesday May 9 (afternoon)

Week 11:

• Midterm reports posted.
• Assignment 3 due April 6.
• Topic of the week: timing
• Due to family emergency, a change in schedule for this week:
  • Monday lecture as usual
  • Wednesday lecture moved to Friday at 3pm.

Week 9:

• Makeup lecture scheduled for Friday March 17 at 3pm.
• Special office hours today at 12:30pm-2pm in 511 Cory (due to qualifying exam at 3pm).
• Midterm project reports due by Monday March 20 at 5pm (electronic versions only)

Week 8:

Prof. Rabaey out of town for the week (DATE Conference in Munich)

• No lecture on Monday. Makeup lecture scheduled for Friday March 17 at 3pm.
• Lecture on We (normal time) by Dejan Markovic.

Week 7:

Homework 2 due today (March 1)

Monday lecture by Dejan Markovic

Week 4:

Homework 2 posted, due We March 1st

Week 3:

No lecture on monday Febr 6 (ISSCC)
Project proposals due Mo Febr 6.

Week 2:

Homework 1 posted.

Week 1:

First lecture on We Jan 18: Make sure to attend the lecture to confirm your registration.

Instructor

Prof. Jan M. Rabaey, 511 Cory Hall, 666-3102, jan@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office hours: Mo 3:30-5pm, 511 Cory Hall.

Reader

Simone Gambini,  BWRC,  sssimone@eecs.berkeley.edu

Administrative Assistant

Jessica Budgin,  558 Cory Hall, 643-7804, jessica@bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu

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

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Course Description

This course aims to convey a knowledge of advanced concepts of circuit design for digital 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, extra focus will be given to the following topics: Low power and low-voltage, process variations and robustness, and memory design in the nanoscale era. This will reflected in both the lectures and the preferred projects.

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Course Links

• Class Topics and Schedule
• Lectures
• Reading Material
• Homework Assignments
• Project Information

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• Tool Information

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Comments and questions should be addressed to ee241@eecs.berkeley.edu  

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