EE 421 Digital Electronics and ECG 621 Digital Integrated Circuit Design
Fall 2018, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

Course lecture notes and videos are located here

Homework assignments, due dates, and project information are located here

 

Current grades are located here.

 

Prior to the first day of class, but no earlier than one week before class starts, request an account on the Cadence servers as discussed here.  

For the fabrication of chips in this class, On Semiconductor 500 nm, the C5 CMOS process with two polysilicon layers and 3 levels of metal.

The MOSIS scalable CMOS (SCMOS) are found in submicron design rules.

A MOSIS technology code of SCN3ME_SUBM with a lambda of 300 nm is used with the design rules.

MOSIS information for this process is located here and the SPICE models are C5_models.txt    

The Cadence examples from the lectures are found in C5_f18.zip (upload to, and unzip in, $HOME/CMOSedu)  

Don't forget to add, to your cds.lib, DEFINE C5_f18 $HOME/CMOSedu/C5_f18 so the Library Manager sees the design directory

  

Textbook: CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Third Edition (Chapters 1-6, 10-15)

Instructor: R. Jacob Baker (see office hours at this link)
Teaching Assistant: Luis Soriano (office hours: Wednesdays 9-11 AM and Thursdays 1-3 PM, office location: TBE B-310)    

Time: MW 4:00 to 5:15 PM

Course datesMonday, August 27 to Wednesday, December 5

Location: SEB-1243

Holidays: Monday, September 3 (Labor Day) and Monday, November 12 (Veterans Day)  
Final exam timeMonday, December 10, 6 to 8 PM    

Course contentAn introduction to the design, layout, and simulation of digital integrated circuits. MOSFET operation and parasitics. Digital design fundamentals including the design of digital logic blocks. Credits: 3

Prerequisites: CpE 100 and EE 320

 

Grading
25% Midterm
25% Homework/Quizzes

25% Course Project (more complicated project for graduate credit, that is, ECG 621)
25% Final

 

Policies

  • No laptops, Internet appliances (e.g. Kindle, Nook, Ipad, etc.), smart phones, may be used during lectures or exams.
  • If an exam or quiz is open book then only the course textbook may be used (no ebooks, Kindle, Nook, etc., older/international editions, or photocopies). No sharing of books during exams or quizzes.
  • No late work accepted. All assigned work is due at the beginning of class.
  • The final exam will not be returned at the end of the semester, not even temporarily for you to review.
  • Regularly being tardy for lectures, leaving in the middle of lectures, or earlier from lectures is unacceptable without prior consent of the instructor.
  • Cheating or plagiarism will result in an automatic F grade in the course (so do your own homework and projects!)
  • Questions for the instructor (only) should be asked in person (not via email). Do not email the instructor.

   

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