ECE 445 Intro to VLSI Design: Handouts and References

Handouts

1. Bond pad design.
2. Elmore Delay in RC Networks is here.
3. Short Channel Effects in MOSFETs is here.
4. CMOS Inverter: Additional slides including logical effort and buffer design.
5. Charge Pump Design: Additional slides including four-phase charge pumps and voltage regulation.
6. Static Logic: Additional slides for static logic gates.
7. Clocked Circuits: Additional slides including latches, flip-flops and sequencing.
8. Dynamic Circuits: Additional slides including dynamic circuits.
9. Datapath Systems. Chapter from CMOS VLSI book.
10. Hardware Description Languages. Appendix from CMOS VLSI book.

References

1. Logical Effort Slides from [1].
2. Logical Effort: Designing for Speed on the back of the envelope.

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