ECE334S - Digital Electronics - Spring 2010

General

This course is an introduction to building digital integrated circuits with emphasis on the transistor level aspects of IC design. Topics to be covered are CMOS logic design, integrated circuit processing, layout design, transistor sizing, combinational circuit design, sequential logic, power dissipation, crossing clock domains, memory circuits, and I/O circuits.

This page can also be accessed directly at http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~johns/ece334/ece334.html

Announcements

Nov 11 Course web page goes live!

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Lecturer

David A. Johns Email: johns@eecg.toronto.edu Office: BA5144 (inside of BA5145)

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Textbook

"CMOS VLSI Design" (third edition) by N.H. E. Weste and D. Harris, Addison Wesley, 2005 ISBN: 0-321-14901-7

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Lectures

Monday 1-2pm BA1170

Thursday 1-2pm BA1180

Friday 2-3pm BA1180

Lec #	Topic	Textbook Section	Lecture Notes
1	Introduction	1.1, 1.2
2	CMOS logic	1.3-1.4
3	CMOS logic	1.5	Layout
4	Ideal MOS transistors	2.1, 2.2
5	Simple MOS Capacitance	2.3
6	Detailed MOS Capacitance	2.3
7	Non-ideal effects	2.4
8	Non-ideal effects	2.4
9	DC Transfer Characteristics	2.5
10	Delay Estimation	4.2	Delay_estimation_01.pdf
11	Transistor sizing	4.2	(same notes as above)
12	Unit Delay and Inverter Chain Sizing	4.2,4.3	Delay_estimation_02.pdf, inverter_chain_sizing.pdf
13	Dynamic Power Dissipation	4.4
14	Dynamic Power Dissipation	4.4	Dynamic Power
15	Review Lecture
16	CMOS Processing	3.2	processing.pdf
17	CMOS Processing	3.2	Silicon Run Video
18	Elmore Delay	4.2	Elmore_Delay.pdf
19	Interconnect Delay	4.5	Interconnect.pdf
20	Schmitt Trigger Circuits		Schmitt.pdf
21	Circuit Families: Static CMOS, Ratioed	6.2.1, 6.2.2
22	Circuit Families: CVSL, Dynamic	6.2.3, 6.2.4
23	Sequential Circuit Design	7.2
24	Register Circuits, setup and hold timing	7.3	Register_setup_hold.pdf
25	Synchronizers	7.6	metastability.pdf
26	Review Lecture
27	Synchronizers	7.6
28	Memory Intro	11.1	memory_01.pdf
29	SRAM memory	11.2
30	SRAM memory	11.2	memory_02.pdf
31	DRAM memory	11.3
32	ROM memory	11.4
33	EEPROM,Flash memory		memory_03.pdf
34	IC Packaging	12.2	packaging.pdf
35	Power Distribution	12.3	power_distribution.pdf
36	Clock Design	12.5	clock_design.pdf
37	Review Lecture