| 
       Topic 
       | 
      
       Number of Lecutres 
       | 
      
       Book Chapter(s) 
       | 
    
| Class Overview | 
      
       1 
       | 
      |
| Project topics | 
      
       1 
       | 
      |
| Circuit Sizing using logic effort | 
      
       2 
       | 
      handouts | 
    
| Logic Circuit Styles (static and dynamic) | 
      
       3 
       | 
      Chapter 7 and 8 | 
    
| Noise sources, analysis and avoidance | 
      
       2 
       | 
      handouts | 
    
| Low power design | 
      
       1 
       | 
      handouts | 
    
| Adiabatic design | 
      1 | 
      handouts | 
    
| Leakage current and low leakage design | 
      
       2 
       | 
      Chapter 3 and 4 | 
    
| Packaging and on-chip power supply design | 
      
       2 
       | 
      Chapter 24 | 
    
| Interconnect analysis and inductance modeling | 
      
       2 
       | 
      Chapter 17 and 19 | 
    
| Clock design | 
      
       1 
       | 
      handouts | 
    
| Synchronization, clocking schemes, meta-stability | 
      
       2 
       | 
      handouts | 
    
| Cache and memory design | 
      
       1 
       | 
      Chapter 11 | 
    
| SOI | 
      
       3 
       | 
      Chapter 5 | 
    
| Process variation  | 
      
       1 
       | 
      Chapter 6 |