Introduction to VLSI Design, Fall 2000
http://www.cis.nctu.edu.tw/~ywchang/Courses/Vlsi2k/vlsi2k.html
ANNOUNCEMENT
- Final Grading Information: Graduate Division and Undergraduate Division. (Jan. 21, 2001) Please report any problem to Yao-Wen at ywchang@cis.nctu.edu.tw by January 29.
- 2001 CAD Contest
- There is a public account "vlsi" (password: "vlsi") for our class. If you don't have any account with the Department of Computer and Information Science, please use this account for your project. You should work in the /temp directory. Please save your files to your floppy disk and delete all the files in the working directory
- Course Information
- You may use "ghostview" to view a postscript file, click on "Page" (then "Mark") to select the pages you want to print, and then click on "File" (then "Print marked pages") to print those pages.
TEXTBOOK AND REFERENCES
W. Wolf, Modern VLSI Design: Systems on Silicon, 2nd Ed, Prentice Hall, 1998. ISBN: 0-13-011076-0 - References
- M. G. Arnold, Verilog Digital Computer Design: Algorithms into Hardware, Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 0-13-639253-9.
- K. Coffman, Real World FPGA Design with Verilog , Prentice Hall, 1999. ISBN: 0-13-099851-6.
- C. H. Roth, Jr., Digital Systems Design Using VHDL, PWS, 1998. ISBN: 0-534-95099-X.
- J. M. Rabaey, Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 0-13-394271-6.
- N. E. Weste and K. Eshraghian, Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A Systems Perspective, 2nd Ed., Addison Wesley, 1993. ISBN: 0201-53376-6.
- S. M. Sze, Semiconductor Devices, Physics and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, 1985. ISBN: 0471-87424-8.
INSTRUCTOR: YAO-WEN CHANG
TEACHING ASSISTANTS
HANDOUTS
- Handout #1 (Syllabus; Sep. 15, 2000)
- Handout #2 (Reading: Moore's Law; Hardcopy is available in EC 414; Sep. 19, 2000)
Also, see an argument on Moore's Law and SIA Roadmap. - Handout #3 (Homework #1; Oct. 6, 2000)
- Handout #4 (Project #1; Oct. 12, 2000)
- International Technology Roadmap, Nov. 1999 .
- Handout #5 (Extended Homework #1; Oct. 18, 2000)
- Resources for Xilinx Foundation Series
- Reading: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics, Wiley and Sons, Apr. 1999) (Oct. 21, 2000)
- Handout #6 (Homework #2; Oct. 25, 2000)
- Handout #7 (Sample Solutions to Homework #1; Nov. 2, 2000)
- Handout #8 (Sample Solutions to Extended Homework #1; Nov. 2, 2000)
- Handout #9 (Extended Homework #2; Nov. 8, 2000)
- Handout #10 (Practice Exam; Nov. 8, 2000)
- Handout #11 (Sample Solutions to Homework #2; Nov. 12, 2000)
- Handout #12 (Sample Solutions to Extended Homework #2; Nov. 12, 2000)
- Handout #13 (Midterm Exam; Nov. 15, 2000)
- Handout #14 (Project #2; Nov. 28, 2000)
Please download benchmark circuits for experimentation. - Handout #15 (Project #3; Dec. 12, 2000)
- Handout #16 (Homework #3; Dec. 27, 2000)
- Handout #17 (Sample Solutions to Homework #3; Jan. 8, 2000)
- Handout #18 (Sample Solutions to Extended Homework #3; Jan. 8, 2000)
LECTURE NOTES
- Lecture Note #1 (Sep. 19, 2000)
- SIA Road Map and Design & Test (by W. Maly) (Sep. 19, 2000)
- Lecture Note #2 (Sep. 26, 2000) (revised version)
- Lecture Note #3 (Oct. 4, 2000) (revised version)
- Lecture Note #4 (Oct. 11, 2000)
- Lecture Note #5 (Oct. 24, 2000)
- Lecture Note for Ripple Carry and CLA Adders (Oct. 24, 2000)
- Lecture Note #6 (Nov. 7, 2000)
- Lecture Note #7 (Dec. 5, 2000)
- Lecture Note #8 (Dec. 12, 2000)
- Lecture Note #9 (Dec. 19, 2000)
- Lecture Note #10 (Dec. 26, 2000)
- Lecture Note #11 (Jan. 4, 2001)
ERRATA
PICTURES
Research Groups on Design Automation
Conferences Related to Design Automation
Journals related to Design Automation
OTHER INFORMATION
For any questions, send e-mails to ywchang@cis.nctu.edu.tw.
Last modified: Aug. 20, 2000 
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