EE 5/418 Memory Circuit
Design
Spring 2007, Boise State University
The Fall 2004 course webpage is located here
The cmosedu.com Google group’s (http://groups.google.com/group/cmosedu) and the email address is cmosedu@googlegroups.com
Lecture notes are available here.
Homework assignments and project information are found here
Current grades are here
Instructor: Prof. R.
J. Baker
Textbooks: "CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and
Simulation, Second Edition" (Chapters 16-19), and
DRAM Circuit Design: Fundamental and
High-Speed Topics by
Keeth, Baker, Johnson, and Lin (currently being written)
We will make extensive use of LTspice in this course.
Examples are found in Memory.zip.
Course TA: Vishal Saxena (send homework to this email address).
Time: Mondays and Wednesdays
from 6:30-7:45 pm
Course dates: Wednesday, January 17 to Wednesday,
May 2
Location: Simplot/Micron
instructional Technology Center (SMITC) room 116
Availability for off-campus students: see the notes here
Test proctoring for out-of-area students: someone approved by the instructor (professor, teacher, training person at a company, etc.)
Micron and other
Holidays: February 19 (Presidents
day), March 26 and 28 (Spring break)
Final exam time: Wednesday May 9
from 5 to 7 pm
Course Description - Design of memory circuits with an emphasis on
DRAM. The course will provide detailed and practical information on the
transistor level design of memory circuits. Other memory technologies including
Flash, MRAM, Glass-based, and SRAM will be discussed. Prerequisite: EE
5/410 IC Physical Design.
For Graduate credit
(EE 518): more complex projects will be assigned and additional exam
problems will be given.
Grading
20% Homework
20% Project1
20% Project2
20% Midterm
20% Project3
Policies
No late work accepted. All assigned work is due at the beginning of class (received email by the time class starts for off-campus students).
Neither the final exam nor final project will be returned at the end of the semester.
Cheating or plagiarism will result in an automatic F grade in the course (so do your own homework and projects!)