A report is expected at both week 7 and week 15. To make the results available to the complete group and to make your results more dynamic, you will be required to provided them as web-entries. For those of you not familiar with the creation of a web-page, please refer to A Beginners Guide to HTML .

As the recurring themes of the class are deep submicron design, signal integrity,low power and timing, it is encouraged to select the design project in one of those topics. Other interesting topics are however welcomed as well. To give some initial guidance, a list of potential topic areas is given below.

• Low Power Circuit Styles
• Reduced Swing Circuits
• Current Mode MOS Circuits
• Reduced Swing Interconnect Driving
• Voltage or Level Converters
• Voltage Generators
• Bootstrapping
• Self-Timed Circuits for Low Power
• Adiabatic Computing, Interconnect or Memories
• Wave Pipelining
• Low Power Bipolar
• Low Voltage Memories (SRAM, DRAM)
• Low Power FPGAs
• Low Voltage Sensing
• Mixing Synchronous and Self-Timed Design
• Locally Synchronous Circuits
• Efficient Clock Gating
• Clock Skew - Clock Distribution Techniques
• Superconducting Circuit Approaches
• Logic in other Number Systems
• Your own hot topic, whacky ideas ...

List of Projects

Midterm Reports

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Final Reports