Advanced digital VLSI design: CMOS scaling, nanoscale issues including variability, thermal management, interconnects, reliability; non-clocked, clocked and self-timed logic gates; clocked storage elements; high-speed components, PLLs and DLLs; clock and power distribution; memory systems; signaling and I/O design; low-power design.
4
UnitsOptional
Grading1, 2, 3
PasstimeNone
Level LimitEngineering
CollegeLearned a lot on VLSI technologies that might be difficult to find on textbooks.
Tough exam and homework but interesting course and great Professor.
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Important course but neither professor nor TA helps much. Poject, HW and labs take much time while necessary guidance lacks. Can't get any useful help from TA and doubt his familiarity with the course. Prof is late for class all the time. Kinda tough course!
Poor class administrator. Large disconnect between lab, lecture, and project. Complete disregard for your time. Needlessly cruel. Laughed at struggling students, and handed out midterms from highest to lowest grades. First half of the course isn't too bad (as it's a review on earlier courses), but degrades heavily, just in time for the midterm.
He is ridiculous. I agree with the comments made about showing up late to every lecture and the tests being way too difficult. Starts out the quarter making you think the course load is easy, then assigns a massive project in the middle of the quarter that is impossible to complete. On top of it, assigns hw to work on concurrently! He is terrible!
Jim Speck
2.3
Christopher Palmstrom
2.8
Frederic Gibou
4.0
Andrew Teel
4.3