__EECE 479 Course Page: Winter 2013_

EECE 479: Introduction to VLSI Systems

January-April, 2013

TA: Eddie Hung, Kaiser 4025

Lectures: T,T 8:00am-9:20am
Room: MCLD 202

UBC Connect Site (handouts, discussion board, etc).

This is a course on the design of very large scale integrated circuits and systems implemented in CMOS technology. Key aspects of transistor operation, gate level design, IC design, fabrication, and layout of digital CMOS integrated will be covered. This is an exciting field that changes almost daily. Integrated circuits are used throughout Electrical Engineering, from cell-phones, consumer devices, signal processing systems, computers, and even biomedical devices. Understanding how these chips work and how they are designed is important to anyone planning a career in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

This course will be of interest to three types of students:

For students that want to specialize in VLSI or Circuit Design, this course will provide the fundamentals you will need for EECE 481 and EECE 488.
For students who want to focus on embedded system design or computer engineering, this course will provide enough information that you will understand the trade-offs that are made in those fields every day.
For students who want to focus on other areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the material you learn in this course will help you understand what IC technology is capable of, and just as importantly, what it is not capable of.

In this course, you will complete a number of medium-sized assignments, and a large design project, in which you will plan, lay out, and simulate an integrated circuit.

All handouts will be posted to the course UBC Connect site. If you have problems accessing these handouts, please let the instructor or TA know. The UBC Connect site also contains a discussion board, which you can use to ask questions. Announcements will be posted to the discussion board.

You can connect to the UBC Connect site here . More information will be available in January, 2013.