EE 421 Digital Electronics and ECG 621 Digital Integrated Circuit Design
Fall 2023, 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 (info), 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.    

The SPICE models for this process are in C5_models.txt    

The Cadence examples from the lectures are found in C5_f23.zip (upload to, and unzip in, $HOME/CMOSedu)  

Don't forget to add, to your cds.lib, DEFINE C5_f21 $HOME/CMOSedu/C5_f23 so the Library Manager sees the design directory

  

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

Instructor: Dr. Baker, R. Jacob
Teaching Assistant (grader): Dylan Cazares, Office hours -

Time: MW 4:00 to 5:15 PM

Course dates: Monday, August 28 to Wednesday, December 6 

Location: TBE B-172  

Holidays: Monday, September 4 (Labor Day) 
Final exam time: Monday, December 11, 6 to 8 PM        

Course content – An 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, tablets, may be used during lectures, quizzes, or exams. Calculators are okay.
  • No late work accepted. If you can't make lecture (for whatever reason) then email a PDF of your hw to the TA for grading before the start of the lecture (if the grader receives after start of lecture then your hw won't be graded). Of course you can also always give your hw to another student to turn in for you too. 
  • 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.
  • 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!)

   

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