View source for Digital IC Design (August 2024)

* First Semester AY 2024-2025 
** Synchronous classes will be held Tuesdays 6-9 PM 
** Refer to the [https://upd.edu.ph/academics/academic-calendar-2/ UP Diliman Academic Calendar] for relevant dates and holidays.
* Course Credit: 4 units (3 units lecture, 1 unit lab)

== Catalog Description ==
Fundamentals of MOSFETS. Technology and modelling. Scaling and limits of scaling. Design for deep-submicron CMOS – high speed. Design techniques for low power. Arithmetic circuits. Driving interconnect, high-speed signalling. Timing. Memory design. Design for testability.

Prerequisite: CoE 141 or equiv

== Course Outline ==
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! Module !! Date !! Topic !! Resources !! Activity
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| style="width: 5%"| 1 ||style="width: 20%"| 10 Sep 2024 ||style="width: 30%"| Introduction 
|| [[video]]
|| [[Activity 1]]
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| 2 || 17 Sep 2024 || MOS Transistor and Technology Scaling
|| [[video]]
|| [[Installing the Tools]]
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| 3 || 24 Sep 2024 || CMOS Inverter and Delay models
|| [[ Inverter]]
|| [[Activity 3]]
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| 4 || 1 Oct 2024 || CMOS Gates and Logical Effort
|| [[ CMOS Gates]]
[[Logical Effort]]
|| [[CMOS Gates Exercise]]
|-
| 5 || 8 Oct 2024 || Variability
|| [[video]]
|| [[Lab Exercise on Variability]]
|- 
||  Midterm Exam
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| 6 ||  || Arithmetic Circuits
|| [[video]]
|| 
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| 7 ||  || Low power design techniques
|| [[video]]
|| 
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| 8 ||  || Timing
|| [[video]]
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| 9 ||  || Memory Design
|| [[video]]
|| [[Lab Exercise on Memory]]
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| 10 ||  || Testing and Testability
|| 
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| 11 ||  || Special Topics
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|| Finals
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== References ==
* review of semiconductor fundamentals [[https://www.up-microlab.org/resources/classes/eee-41-home-page/eee-41-s1y2017/ EEE 41]]

* review of transistors and transistor circuits [[https://www.up-microlab.org/resources/classes/eee-51-home-page/eee-51-s2y2019/ EEE 51]]

* Book References
** J. Rabaey. 2009. Low Power Design Essentials. Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated.
** J. Rabaey, Chandrakasan, A,, Nikolic, B. 2004. Digital integrated circuits- A design perspective. Prentice Hall. 
** A. Chandrakasan, W. Bowhill, and F. Fox. 2000. Design of High-Performance Microprocessor Circuits. Wiley-IEEE Press
** M. Alioto (ed), Enabling the Internet of Things: From Integrated Circuits to Integrated Systems, Springer 2017.
** Neil Weste and David Harris. 2010. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (4th. ed.). Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, USA.

* Other References