Syllabus and Overview

ELEC3221 — Syllabus

Overview for Part II Students making Option Choices

Notes

The following lecture notes are available

IC Design I (Circuits and Layout)

1. Introduction - ...unedited
2. Overview of Technologies - ...unedited
3. Layout - ...unedited
   • Resistor Quiz
4. CMOS Processing - ...unedited
   • example inverters with cross sections
5. Design Rules and Abstraction - ...unedited
   • Example MOSIS design rules
   • SkyWater 130nm Design Rules
   • Drawing Stick Diagrams
6. Cell Design and Euler Paths - ...unedited
   • Taps
7. System Design using Standard Cells - ...unedited

8. Pass Transistor Circuits - ...unedited
9. Latches and Flip-Flops - ...unedited
10. PLAs, ROMs and RAMs - ...unedited

11. Wider View - ...unedited - ...Altera FPGA
• Course Summary

Printable copies of these notes are available:

• Separate files in PDF format, 4 slides to a page
• Lectures 1-11, in PDF format, 4 slides to a page
  

IC Design II (Timing)

• Synchronous Design - ...unedited (old version)
• Asynchronous Inputs - ...unedited

Coursework (10% marks)

• Mask Level Layout using L-Edit
  -- experimental system - please report problems to Iain McNally
  • Electronic Handin Deadline 16:00 Tuesday 5^th November

Exam

• Exam Details
• Drawing figures in an exam

Links to other pages

• Gordon Moore on Moore's Law

• International Roadmap for Devices and Systems
  Roadmap predictions have driven the industry's adherence to Moore's law.
  • "More Moore" White Paper
    This white paper includes the most recent set of predictions relating to transistor scaling and other clever tricks to increase transistor count.

• MOSIS
  An Integrated Circuit Fabrication Service

• FOSSi
  The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation

• From Bill Hammack (The Engineer Guy)
  • Does the first transistor ever built still work?
  • How the first transistor worked