ECE 558: Introduction to VLSI Design
ECE 658: VLSI Design Principles

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Course syllabus (pdf): F09

Professor Wayne Burleson
Office: Knowles Engineering Building, 309C
Office Hours: Tue, Thu 11AM-12PM

Class: TuTh 9:30AM – 10:45AM, Classroom: ELAB 304

Teaching Assistants: Ibis Benito (HWs), Jinwook Jang (Labs)
TA emails: ibenito at ecs dot umass dot edu , jjang at ecs dot umass dot edu
TA Page: http://python.ecs.umass.edu/~cad/2009/
TA Office Hours: Ibis: Wed 10AM-2PM, Thu 2PM-4PM @ Marcus 5
                       Jinwook: Tue 2PM-4PM, Fri 8PM-10PM @ Marston 112

Grading: Homework (10%), Labs (40%), Two midterm exams (30%), and a final exam (20%).

Textbook (Required): CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 3rd Edition, Neil Weste, David Harris, Addison Wesley, 2003,ISBN: 0-321-14901-7

Supplementary Readings:

1. Design of High Performance Microprocessor Circuits, A. Chandrakasan, W. Bowhill, F. Fox, IEEE Press, 2000, ISBN 078036001-X Digital Integrated Circuits, Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic, Pearson Education,Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2003, ISBN 0130909963. Web page for book including Powerpoint and PDF of all slides.
2. Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design, 3rd Edition,Sung-Mo Kang,Yusuf Leblebici,McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN:0071196447.
3. Chip Design for Submicron VLSI: CMOS Layout and Simulation,1st Edition, John P. Uyemura, Thomson, 2005, ISBN:053446629X.

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