Digital design using deep sub-micron CMOS. CMOS devices and manufacturing. Inverters, complex gates. Modeling of interconnect. Optimization of designs with respect to cost, reliability, performance, and power dissipation. Sequential circuits, timing considerations, and clocking approaches. Design of large functional blocks such as arithmetic and memories. Introduction to design methodologies, hands-on experience.

Elad Alon, Associate Professor

He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2001, 2002, and 2006, respectively. In Jan. 2007, he joined the University of California at Berkeley, where he is now an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciencesa as well as a co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC). He has held consulting or visiting positions at Xilinx, Sun Labs, Intel, AMD, Rambus, Hewlett Packard, and IBM Research, where he worked on digital, analog, and mixed-signal integrated circuits for computing, test and measurement, and high-speed communications.

Homepage: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/elad.html
Email:  Elad@eecs
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 3:30-4:40pm; Thursdays 2:30-3:30pm

Fall 2013 - Rabaey

Spring 2013 - Rabaey