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Digital Integrated Circuit Design

X404 (1 semester unit in EE)

An elective in the Professional Sequence in Integrated Circuit Design and Techniques

This state-of-the-art course begins with the solid understanding of digital operation principles and advances into more complex entities, such as multiplexers and flash memory. Featuring in-depth illustration and broad discussions, this course distills essential concepts, SPICE verification, and design skills from CMOS, ECL, and BiCMOS logic, to memory design. This unique course provides you an opportunity to work on a research project covering cutting-edge technologies, including ULP eSRAM design for hand-held or mobile applications, non-volatile memory, NOR flash, PRAM, and high-speed eDRAM. Note: this course features an English language web presentation accompanied by both an English language or Mandarin language soundtrack. The student can choose either soundtrack option at any time during the course. Mandarin-speaking students with limited English language skills may successfully complete the course.

Course outline:

Basics of Digital Circuits

Static Behavior of Digital Inverters
Dynamic Behavior of Digital Inverters
Key Concepts of Logic Circuit Design

Static CMOS Digital Circuits

Evaluating Robustness of CMOS Inverter
Evaluating Power Consumption of CMOS Inverter
Evaluating Speed Limitation of CMOS Inverter
Static and Dynamic Behavior Practices of CMOS Inverter
Analysis Skills for Cascade Configuration
Design of Static CMOS Logic Circuits
Design Techniques for Static CMOS Logic Circuits

Advanced CMOS Digital Circuits

Evaluating Robustness and Speed of Pseudo-NMOS Inverter
Design Practice of Pseudo-NMOS Logic Circuit
NMOS-Only Transmission-Gate Logic
Evaluating Speed Limitation of CMOS Transmission-Gate Logic
Design of Transmission-Gate Logic Circuits
Noise Consideration in Dynamic CMOS Logic Design
Timing Issues in Dynamic CMOS Logic Circuits
Design Techniques for Dynamic CMOS: Domino Logic

Semiconductor Memory Design

Static Sequential Circuits: Key Concepts
Static Random-Access Memory (SRAM)
Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM)
Memory Peripheral Circuitry: Sense Amplifier Design
Read-Only Memory (ROM): Architectures and Building Blocks
Nonvolatile Read-Write Memory

High-Performance Digital Circuits

Historical Review and Issues in Bipolar Logic Styles
Bipolar Emitter-Coupled Logic Gate
Evaluating Robustness and Noise Immunity of ECL Gate
Fundamental Practice of ECL Static Behavior
Advanced Practices of ECL Robustness and Noise Immunity
Designing BiCMOS Digital Circuits

Individual Research Project

Embedded SRAM (eSRAM)
Non-Volatile Memories
High-Speed Embedded DRAM (eDRAM)

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