Syllabus for EECS627 - VLSI Design II
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