|
Date (week)
|
Topic
|
Book Chapters
|
Project / Lab Milestones
|
Recitation Topics
|
|
| January 7 (1) |
Class overview |
Lab 1 handout |
|||
| January 9 |
Current Research Topics / Project topics |
||||
| January 11 |
* |
Lab 2 handout |
Lab1 discussion |
||
| January 14 (2) |
Logic effort |
||||
| January 16 |
Design methodologies / System modeling |
Project Proposal Due |
|||
| January 18 |
* |
Lab 1 due |
Lab 2 discussion |
||
| January 21 (3) |
MLK - no class |
||||
| January 23 |
Logic styles - PTL / CPL logic |
CBF Chapter 7 |
|||
| January 25 |
* |
No recitation |
|||
| January 28 (4) |
Logic styles - Domino logic |
CBF Chapter 8 |
Lab 3 handout |
||
| January 30 |
Noise sources and analysis |
DP Chapter 6 |
Verification environment |
||
| February 1 |
* |
Lab 2 due |
Lab 3 discussion |
||
| February 4 (5) |
ISSCC - No class |
||||
| February 6 |
Noise avoidance techniques |
||||
| February 8 |
* |
Lab 3 due |
Make file / CVS |
||
| February 11 (6) | Low power design techniques |
Design Review 1 |
|||
| February 13 | Leakage current analysis |
CBF Chapter 3 |
|||
| February 15 |
* |
Timing Closure |
|||
| February 18 (7) |
Low leakage design / dual-Vt design |
CBF Chapter 4 |
|||
| February 20 |
MIDTERM |
||||
| February 22 |
* |
Behavioral Verilog |
Mem / Reg compilers |
||
| February 25 (8) | Spring break |
||||
| February 27 |
Spring break |
||||
| March 1 |
Spring break |
||||
| March 4 (9) |
exame review / low power |
DP Chapter 2 |
|||
| March 6 |
low power / leakage |
CBF Chapter 4 |
|||
| March 8 |
* |
Scan insertion |
|||
| March 11 (10) |
leakage |
CBF Chapter 3 |
|||
| March 13 |
Packaging and Power supply design |
DP Chapter 2 |
|||
| March 15 |
* |
Q &A |
|||
| March 18 (11) |
Packaging and Power supply design |
CBF Chapter 24 |
|||
| March 20 |
Inductance analysis |
DP Chapter 3 | Synopsys Synthesis |
||
| March 22 |
* |
Design Review 2 |
Q &A |
||
| March 25 (12) |
Inductance analysis | CBF Chapter 17 |
|||
| March 27 |
Synchronization and clock design |
CBF Chapter 11 |
|||
| March 29 |
* |
Q &A |
|||
| April 1 (13) |
Synchronization and metastability |
CBF Chapter 13 |
|||
| April 3 |
Process Variability |
DP Chapter 10 |
Layout complete |
||
| April 5 |
* |
Q &A |
|||
| April 8 (14) |
SOI Design I |
CBF Chapter 6 |
|||
| April 10 | SOI Design II |
CBF Chapter 5 |
DRC / LVS |
||
| April 12 |
* |
Q &A |
|||
| April 15 (15) |
SOI Design III |
||||
| April 17 |
Final Exam |
||||
| April 19 - 26 |
Final Presentations |
Final Presentations |