Electrical Engineering
      and Computer Sciences

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

UC Berkeley

 


EE W141

Digital Integrated Circuits
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Units 3
Estimated Work 12 hours/week
Prerequisites    MAS-IC Students Only
Weekly Format  3 hrs lecture
1 hr discussion
3 hrs laboratory

 

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.

TEACHING TEAM
Alon

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

Jan Rabaey

Jan Rabaey, Professor

He received the EE and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1978 and 1983 respectively. From 1983-1985, he was a Visiting Research Engineer at UC Berkeley. From 1985-1987, he was a research manager at IMEC, Belgium, and in 1987, joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at UC Berkeley, where he is now holds the Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professorship. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Pavia (Italy), Waseda University (Japan), the Technical University Delft (Netherlands), Victoria Technical University and the University of New South Wales (Australia). He is currently the Scientific co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center (BWRC), as well as the director of the Multiscale Systems Research Center (MuSyC).

Homepage: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/rabaey.html
Email:  Jan@eecs
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10:30am-noon

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Fall 2013 - Rabaey

Spring 2013 - Rabaey