Goal:
VLSI is very important to the information, communication,
and electronic industry, which together account for
50% of the exporting business of Taiwan.
Every CS or EE student should be knowledgeable about
VLSI Design.
The course is basically a simplified version of CS5120,
which has been offered to about 40 graduate students
each year over the past 9 years.
The objective of this course is to give undergraduate
students (junior & senior)
a basic understanding of what is VLSI all about.
Students completing this course shall be able to
know both the possibility and limitation of implementing
a digital system on a chip.
Therefore, they will be better prepared for future
study on anything that requires a hardware implementation.
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Roles of IC in the Information Industry
- Taiwan's IC-Related Industry
- Semiconductor Fabrication Process
- CMOS Logic Circuits
- VLSI Circuit Design Process
- Design Methodologies
- Frequently Used Subsystems
- Software Tools for VLSI Design
- Testing and Design for Testability
- Future Development
- Case Study
- Term Project
Text:
- Wayne Wolf, "Modern VLSI Design -- A Systems Approach," Prentice Hall, 1994.
Reference:
- Neil H. E. Weste and Kamran Eshraghian, "Principles of CMOS VLSI Design -- A Systems Perspective," 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley, 1993.
- W. Maly, "Atlas of IC Technologies: An Introduction to VLSI Processes," Benjamin-Cummings, 1987.
- Dar-Zen Chung, "VLSI Fabrication Technologies," (in Chinese), Gao-Li Publishers, 1995.
- Yu-Chin Hsu, Kevin F. Tsai, Jessie T. Liu, and Eric S. Lin, "VHDL Modeling for Digital Design Synthesis," Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
- Eli Sternheim, Rajvir Singh, Rajeev Madhavan and Yatin Trivedi, "Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL," Automata Publishing Company, 1993.
- Handouts
Grade:
- Homework -- 30%
- Midterm -- 20%
- Final -- 20%
- Project -- 20%
Term Project:
Students will do a cell-based design project starting from
HDL language description all the way down to the fabricatable layout.