Logistics

Instructor: Prof. Eby G. Friedman
Course Ref. No. 75467 - 4 Credit Course

Class Lectures Times
        Tuesdays and Thursdays - 3:25 to 4:40 P. M. in CSB 426
        Fridays - 3:00 P.M. in CSB 426

Course Description:

        A reading course in which some of the primary as well as recent papers in the field of VLSI digital and analog design methodologies will be reviewed and discussed. It is expected that each student will participate in the discussions. The focus will be to provide background and insight into some of the most active performance related research areas in the field of VLSI design methodologies, such as CMOS delay and modeling, timing and signal delay analysis, low power CMOS design and analysis, optimal transistor sizing and buffer tapering, pipelining and register allocation, synchronization and clock distribution, retiming, interconnect delay, dynamic CMOS design techniques, asynchronous vs. synchronous tradeoffs, low power design, and CMOS power dissipation.

Permission of the instructor is required to take this course.

TA:    Ravi Patel: rapatel@ece.rochester.edu (email for appointment)

Textbooks:

Required:

M. Popovich, A. V. Mezhiba, and E. G. Friedman, Power Distribution Networks with On-Chip Decoupling Capacitors, Springer Verlag, 2008.

Strongly recommended:

V. Kursun and E. G. Friedman, Multi-Voltage CMOS Circuit Design, John Wiley & Sons Press, 2006.
A. Chandrakasan, W. J. Bowhill, and F. Fox, Design of High-Performanmce Microprocessor Circuits, IEEE Press, 2001
Y. I. Ismail and E. G. Friedman, On-Chip Inductance in High Speed Integrated Circuits
I. S. Kourtev and E. G. Friedman, Timing Optimization Through Clock Skew Scheduling, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000

Recommended:

M. Shoji, Theory of CMOS Digital Circuits and Circuit Failures, Princeton University Press, 1992.
H.B. Bakoglu, Circuits, Interconnections, and Packaging for VLSI, Addison Wesley, 1990.
E.G. Friedman, Clock Distribution Networks in VLSI Circuits and Systems, IEEE Press, 1995

Distributed:

Numerous journal and conference papers

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