EE 451: Integrated Circuits Design

     EE 451: Integrated Circuits Design 

FALL 2024

Instructor:	Dr. Ahmed Farghal, Ph.D. Office:  E-mail: ahmedfarghal7080@gmail.com Facebook: Click here Scheduled Office Hours: TBD. Open Door Policy: When my door is open, you are welcome to come in.
Course Organization:	Lecture: Saturdays, 01:00 pm – 03:00 pm, @ Room  404. 2 hours of tutorial per week Teaching Assistant: Eng.
Midterm Exam:	TBD.
Final Exam:	TBD.

Required Textbook:

CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (4th edition) by Neil H.E. Weste, David Harris, Pub: Addison Wesley 

 

Optional Reading:

Course Topics:

   

Handouts: Fall 2024

The handouts are available as Adobe PDF files through the links below.   

• Lecture 1: Introduction to VLSI Design.
• Lecture 2: MOSFETs The Long Channel, Ideal, or Shockley Model.
• Lecture 3: Nonideal Transistor Theory.
• Lecture 4: CMOS Inverter: DC Analysis.
• Lecture 5: CMOS Inverter: Dynamic Behavior.
• Lecture 6: Logical Effort Delay.
• Lecture 7: Power.
• Lecture 8: Wires.
• Lecture 9: SPICE Simulation.
• Lecture 10: Hardware Description Languages I.
• Lecture 11: Hardware Description Languages II.

Problem Sets

• Sheet #1 
• Sheet #2 
• Sheet #3 
• Sheet #4 
• Sheet #5 
• Sheet #6 
• Sheet #7 
• Sheet #8

Useful Links

          

• Method of Logical Effort

• LTspice: Free, commercial-quality SPICE simulator.

• Electric: Open-source schematic and layout editor.

• Magic: Free layout editor.