CSE 493/593 Introduction to VLSI Electronics Fall 2019

Instructor:  Professor R. Sridhar, 338K Davis Hall , E-mail: rsridhar@buffalo.edu Office Hours: Tues 1:30pm-3:30pm;

Teaching Assistant: Sheena Ratnam Priya  E-mail: sheenara@buffalo.edu; Office Hours: During Lab in 340 Bell

Lecture: Wednesday 6:30 PM - 9:10 PM, NSC 216

Scheduled Lab Hours: Monday 5pm - 7pm, Monday 7pm - 9pm and Thursday 5pm - 7pm in 340 Bell Hall

Course Objectives:

This is an introductory course in VLSI Systems and Design. At the completion of this course, a student should be able to design and analyze digital systems, incorporating into a VLSI chip. They should be able to design for low power and design for performance, work in small groups and bring together design components into a full custom chip.

Topics:

• Introduction to VLSI; design metrics
• MOS Devices, CMOS Inverter
• Combinational logic, layout, design rules
• Manufacturing process; 
• Simulation; CAD tools
• Low Power design strategies
• CMOS inverter - the dynamic view
• Logic Styles; Dynamic CMOS logic
• Timing and clock synchronization, pipelining
• Static, Dynamic  sequential circuits
• Deep sub-micron designs; design for performance
• Wires; Coping with Interconnects 
• Adders, Multipliers, data paths; timing issues
• Memory structures
• Emerging topics; Variability and Design for Manufacturing
• CMOS system design, Floor plan, Placement and routing, Project design

Learning Outcomes:

By completing this course, the students are expected to have obtained

· the knowledge of fundamentals of VLSI Design principles

· experience of designing a full custom Integrated circuit chip working in a design team

· skills to communicate their design experience through a detailed report and a short presentation to the class

Text Book:

• Digital Integrated Circuits, Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolic. Second Edition, A Prentice-Hall, 2003

Reference Books:

• Digital VLSI Chip Design with Cadence and Synopsys CAD Tools, Eric Brunvand, Addison Wesley, 2009
• CMOS VLSI Design: Circuits and Systems Perspective, by N Weste and D. Harris, Fourth edition, Addison Wesley, 2010

Course Grading:

Project (Completed project, reports, demonstration and presentation) = 40 points; Quiz = 10 points Lab = 10 points; Exam 1 = 20 points; Exam 2 (cumulative) = 20 points

Grade Assignment: (Letter grades carry normal numerical values)

(91-100 = A, 89-90 = A-, 87-88 = B+, 81-86= B, 79-80 = B-, 77-78 = C+, 71-76 = C, 66-70 = C-, 60-65 = D, 1-59 = F).  A passing grade must be obtained in each of the following components: a) design project and lab work combined and b) quiz, and the two exams combined, to get a passing grade in this course.

Curving will be applied as deemed appropriate by the instructor. Design of a full custom, fully verified VLSI chip is required. Quizzes may not be announced ahead. No makeup quizzes will be given. Homework is not collected or graded.

Grades for CSE493 will be determined considering only CSE493 students (curving applied within that group separately).

Academic Integrity: All academic work must be your own. Collaboration, usually evidenced by unjustifiable similarity in any graded work, is never allowed. work submitted for this course must be your own and must be done on an individual basis. Cheating on homework, a project, quiz or an exam will result in automatic failure of the course. Please do read the recently updated departmental Academic integrity policy here at https://engineering.buffalo.edu/computer-science-engineering/information-for-students/policies/academic-integrity.html

Please note the zero tolerance policy of violations.

It is your responsibility to maintain the security of your computer accounts and your written work. Do not share passwords with anyone, nor write your password down where it may be seen by others. Do not change permissions to allow others to read your course directories and files. Do not walk away from a workstation without logging out. These are your responsibilities. In groups that collaborate inappropriately, it may be impossible to determine who has offered work to others in the group, who has received work, and who may have inadvertently made their work available to the others by failure to maintain adequate personal security; in such cases, all will be held equally liable.

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