ECE 5/418 Memory IC Design (Clock Synchronization IC Design)

Spring 2013, Boise State University

Lecture notes are here and course handouts are here.

Homework assignments, project information, and due dates are located here.

Current grades are here.

Cadence Wiki with FAQs is here.

Instructor : Vishal Saxena

Time : Tue/Thu 3:00-4:15 PM.

Course dates : Jan 22 – May 10, 2013

Location : ENGR 314

Office Hours : Tue/Thu 4:30-5:30 PM (or by appointment)

Holidays : March 26 and 28

Final Exam time: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 2:30-4:30 PM

Course TA : None. Submit HWs to the instructor (vishalsaxena AT boisestate DOT edu).

Textbook – No textbook. Lecture notes and handouts will be used. Following references are useful:

· RF Microelectronics, B. Razavi, 2^nd Ed., Prentice Hall, 2012 (Chapters 9-11)

· Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, B. Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 2002 (Chapters 14-15)

· CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation – R. J. Baker, 3^nd Edition, Wiley-IEEE, 2010 (Chapter 16)

For detailed references and handouts see this page.

Course content – Overview of Memory Architectures, Design and analysis of Phase-locked Loops (PLLs) and Delay-locked Loops (DLLs). PREREQ: ECE 5/410.

Note: This graduate component of the course will emphasize on PLL design. It is recommended that the graduate students have taken or are taking ECE 5/411.

For Graduate credit (ECE 518): A more complex design project will be assigned and additional homework and exam problems may be given.

CAD software information

The course will require extensive use of Cadence Design System in Linux environment. Set up your account to remotely use Cadence using the wiki.

The course Google group is (http://groups.google.com/group/ams-bsu) and the email address is ams-bsu@googlegroups.com

Workload (Grading) 

20% Homeworks

20% Midterm

20% Project1

20% Project2

20% Final

Policies

No late work accepted. All assigned work is due at the beginning of class.

Neither the final exam nor final project will be returned at the end of the semester.

Cheating or plagiarism of any form will result in an automatic F grade in the course (so do your own homework and projects!). Students should review Section 18/18A/18B of the Boise State University Student Code of Conduct (http://www.boisestate.edu/policy/policy_docs/2020_studentcodeofconduct.pdf) for more detailed information regarding academic dishonesty.

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