ECE 446 Microelectronics Systems Design

Textbook

Neil H. E. Weste and David Harris, CMOS VLSI Design, A Circuits and Systems Perspective, Third Edition, Addison Wesley, 2005. ISBN 0-321-14901-7

Grading System

3 tests (60%)
~8 assignments and projects (40%)

Exam Information

Tests are taken in-class and consist of an closed-book section on basic concepts and simple problems and an open-book section of more complicated questions and problems.

References

The following are textbooks used in previous years.

R. Jacob Baker, CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Second Edition
IEEE Press, Wiley-Interscience, 2005. ISBN 0-471-70051-X

Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolic,
Digital Integrated Circuits, A Design Perspective, 2nd Ed.
Prentice-Hall, 2003. ISBN 0-13-090996-3

Sun-Mo Kang and Yusuf Levlebici, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits, 2nd Ed.
McGraw-Hill, 1999. ISBN 0-07-292507-8

John P. Uyemura, Introduction to VLSI Circuits and Systems,
John Wiley & Sons, 2002. ISBN 0-471-12704-3


Maintained by John Loomis, last updated 20 August 2007