COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PRINCIPLES OF VLSI DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EEE 5086 PRINCIPLES OF VLSI DESIGN ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR UĞUR ÇAM

Offered to

ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING (ENGLISH)

Course Objective

To teach principles of very large scale integration (VLSI), starting from semiconductor physics up to analog and digital VLSI design.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to comprehend semiconductor physics.
2   To be able to understand physical operation of electronic devices.
3   To be able to learn VLSI processing and layout.
4   To be able to design VLSI circuits with hardware description languages
5   To be able to design digital VLSI circuits, e.g. inverters.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to VLSI
2 Devices and modeling
3 Manufacturing process
4 IC layout
5 Digital VLSI Design
6 Digital VLSI Design
7 Digital VLSI Design
8 Hardware description languages
9 HDL Design
10 HDL Design
11 Analog VLSI Design
12 Project presentations
13 Project presentations
14 Project presentations
15 Project presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

fTextbooks:
1) CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (4th Edition) by Neil Weste and David Harris, Pearson education.
2) Microelectronic Circuits, 5th Edition, Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith, Oxford University Press, 2004.


Supplementary Books:
1) LTSPICE for Microelectronic Circuits, 1st Edition, G. W. Roberts, McGill University,2020
2) Digital Integrated Circuits, J. M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, B. Nikolic, Prentice-Hall, 2003., 2003.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, Projects

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 1


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Design Projects

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Ugur Cam
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi
Mühendislik Fakültesi
Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği
e-mail: ugur.cam@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Design Project 10 10 100
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 198

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.152
LO.252
LO.352
LO.4544
LO.5544

CONTACT INFORMATION
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