NEEI 6342  Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits (IC 742) 

Note: The following provides a suggested course description, objectives, and an outline. These may be modified pending discussion with the Faculty Chairs, proposing faculty, and other curriculum reviewers.

Course Description: The advent of deep sub-micron technologies poses a number of profound challenges to the designer of advanced digital integrated circuits such as microprocessors, wireless communications, multimedia processors and ASICs. This course identifies the compelling issues facing the designer of the next decade and presents both analysis and solution techniques. Topics include the perspective and impact of technology scaling, high-performance and low-power design, timing and synchronization techniques, signal integrity, interconnect, reconfigurable logic and memory design .

Course Objectives: Enable students to learn advanced techniques about the design of digital integrated circuits.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

  • Fundamentals - Technology and modeling
  • Design techniques for High Speed CMOS
  • Design techniques for Low Power
  • Timing
  • Datapath design
  • Memory design
  • Design for Testability

 

 




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