EECS 270B | EECS 170E | EECS 170D

EECS 170D Integrated Electronic Circuit Design (4)

Instructor	Payam Heydari
Address	University of California
	Engineering Tower 644C
	Irvine, CA 92697-2625
E-mail	payam@eecs.uci.edu
Phone	(949) 824-9324
URL	http://newport.eecs.uci.edu/~payam
Office hours

Grading Policy:

Homework	20%
Midterm	25%
Project	25%
Final	30%

Prerequisite:

EECS 170C and EECS 170LC, basic understanding of electronics and circuits as well as logic design

Textbook:

Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perscpective; Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic; 2^nd Ed. Prentice-Hall, 2003

Reference:

Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits; P. R. Gray, P. J. Hurst, S. H. Lewis, R. G. Meyer; John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Course Objectives:

1.      To understand the steps involved in the fabrication of a CMOS microelectronic circuit.

2.      To understand the functional characteristics of basic digital integrated circuits and different logic families including the static and dynamic logic.

3.      To be able to design and simulate various functional blocks utilized in CMOS digital integrated circuits. Such blocks include: combinational and sequential logic blocks (both static and dynamic styles); and differential pairs.

4.      To understand how to perform physical layout of basic functional circuit blocks that have been designed.

Course Outcomes and relationships to Program Outcome:

1.      Students understand the actual steps involved in the fabrication of a CMOS integrated circuit.

2.      Students understand the functional characteristics of basic digital integrated circuits and different logic families including the static and dynamic logic.

3.      Students can design and simulate various functional blocks utilized in CMOS digital integrated circuits. Such blocks include: combinational and sequential logic blocks (both static and dynamic styles); and differential pairs.

4.      Students understand how to perform physical layout of basic functional circuit blocks that have been designed.

Prerequisites By Topic:

1.      Understanding of engineering materials at the ECE70A/B, a sophomore-level course.

2.    EECS 170A, Electronics I, which covers basic semiconductor device principle

3.    EECS 170B, Electronics II

4.    EECS 170C; Electronics III, which covers operation, design, and utilization of integrated circuit modules, including operational amplifiers

Course Description:

An overview of the design and fabrication of modern analog and digital integrated circuits. Topics include: fabrication materials and processes; transistor-level design simulation, layout and extraction of digital circuits; automated design tools.