ECE262/462 - VLSI Project
Professor - lectures
Martin Margala
5-2125
CSB 419
margala@ece.rochester.edu
Class time and place
MWF 10:00-10:50 in CSB 523
Office hours (lecture)
Special help sessions are available by appointment at other times.
Reference materials
A required textbook for the course will be available in the bookstore:
A. Bellaouar and M. I. Elmasry,
Low-Power Digital VLSI Design
: Circuits and Systems
, Kluwer 1996.
Other References:
Pedram, Rabaey
Low-Power Methodology,
IEEE Press
Sanches-Sinencio, Andreou
Low-Voltage Low-Power Integrated Circuits and Systems
, IEEE Press
Course notes
Lecture notes will be regularly posted on the course-web site.
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Assignments
Three assignments will be given out. Your solutions will be marked. Your solutions are due on a specific due date. No extensions will be granted and late assignments will not be accepted.
Exams
There are no scheduled exams.
Marking Scheme
Assignments
30%
Project
70%
Course Outline
Low-Power VLSI Design: An Overview
Low-Voltage Process Technology
Low-Voltage Device Modeling
Low-Voltage Low-Power VLSI CMOS Circuit Design
Low-Power Memory Circuits
Low-Power VLSI CMOS Subsystem Design
Low-Power VLSI Design Methodology