Lecture notes

  1. Administrative details, context, and topics. Screen. Print.
  2. Recent trends and device requirements for use in digital systems. Screen. Print.
  3. Discussion session 1: Introduction to Cadence tools, getting started on laboratory assignment one. Notes.
  4. Intro to logic and transmission gates, RC loads, and inverters. Screen. Print.
  5. Diodes. Screen. Print.
  6. Discussion session 2: Help with diodes, inverters, and Cadence tools. Notes.
  7. MOSFET behavior overview and threshold voltage expression. Screen. Print.
  8. MOSFET operating regions. Screen. Print.
  9. Alternative device technologies and introduction to integrated circuit fabrication. Screen. Print.
  10. Discussion session 3: Help with diodes, power consumption, MOSFET operating regions, homework 1, and lab 2. Notes.
  11. Guest talk by Dr. Lei Jiang. Notes.
  12. Integrated circuit fabrication, layout, and packaging. Screen. Print.
  13. Discussion session 4: Help with lab 2 and layouts. Notes.
  14. MOSFET dynamic behavior. Screen. Print.
  15. Inverter static behavior. Screen. Print.
  16. Discussion session 5: Layouts, MOSFET operating regions, and MOSFET capacitances. Notes.
  17. Inverter dynamic behavior. Screen. Print.
  18. Discussion session 6: Inverters and power. Notes.
  19. Inverter dynamic behavior and logic gate design. Screen. Print.
  20. Discussion session 7: Review. Notes.
  21. Introduction to gate sizing. Screen. Print.
  22. Discussion session 8: Inverter chains. Notes.
  23. Energy consumption fundamentals and interconnect. Screen. Print.
  24. Interconnect, Elmore delay, and TG/pass transistor design style. Screen. Print.
  25. Discussion session 9: Inverter chains, interconnect, and Elmore delay. Notes.
  26. Pass transistor logic. Screen.
  27. Logic design styles and non-idealities. Screen. Print.
  28. Discussion session 10: Pass transistor and transmission gate based logic. Notes.
  29. Charge sharing and introduction to flip-flops and latches. Screen. Print.
  30. Flip-flops and latches. Screen. Print.
  31. Discussion session 11: Inverter sizing and sequential elements. Notes.
  32. Memory organization. Screen. Print.
  33. Memory layout and sense amps. Screen. Print.
  34. Generalized sizing. Screen. Print.
  35. Discussion session 12: Memory and charge sharing. Notes.

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