ECE 531 Microelectronics Systems Design
Fall 2008

1 Th Aug 21 introduction
2 Tu Aug 26 layers, resistors, capacitors
3 Th Aug 28 LTSpice RC Circuits, diodes
4 Tu Sep 2 LTSpice diodes, NMOS transistors
5 Th Sep 4 NMOS transistors, SPICE models
6 Tu Sep 9 PMOS transistors
7 Th Sep 11 inverter, symbols/blocks in spice
8 Tu Sep 16 inverter chains
9 Th Sep 18 CMOS gates, transmission gates
10 Tu Sep 23 clocked inverters, latches
11 Th Sep 25 flip-flops, Schmidt triggers
12 Tu Sep 30 test 1
13 Th Oct 2 introduction to Electric layout
14 Tu Oct 7

ThOct 9midterm break
15 Tu Oct 14 latch/mux layout, xor gates
16 Th Oct 16 Lithography video
17 Tu Oct 21 adders, shifters, arbiter
18 Th Oct 23 ion implantation video
19 Tu Oct 28 Silos3 verilog
20 Th Oct 30 deposition video
21 Tu Nov 4 VCO, memory
22 Th Nov 6 etch video
23 Tu Nov 11 review projects
24 Th Nov 13 test 2
25 Tu Nov 18
26 Th Nov 20
27 Tu Nov 25

Th Nov 27 Thanksgiving
28 Tu Dec 2 design methodology
29 Th Dec 4 2 presentations,
Silicon Run II video
30 Tu Dec 9
31 Wed Dec 17 Final exam 12-2 pm


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