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Electrical Engineering 327
EE 327 — Digital Electronics
Spring 2005
12:30–1:50 P.M., Tuesday, Thursday, OHE 230
Department of Electrical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California
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Index

CMOS process and device fundamentals,
digital circuit element and design basics,
interconnect, timing, and power issues for VLSI.


       Transmission electron micrograph of 1.2 nm gate oxide             MOSFET - 3D cross-section            
       Transmission electron micrograph
of 1.2 nm gate oxide
            MOSFET            
 
 
 

EE 327 Course Information

Syllabus and Course Schedule


Core Presentation Slides — Sessions 01–06  

Core Presentation Slides — Sessions 07–10  

Core Presentation Slides — Sessions 11–19  

Core Presentation Slides — Sessions 20–  


Class Exercises, Examples, Homework  


For pn junction basics see links below to MIT OpenCourseWare, Rice connexions,
and Bart Van Zeghbroeck's Principles of Semiconductor Devices.



L-Edit Materials

  NMOS Layout with L-Edit

  L-Edit Extraction file (.ext)
  Process definition file (.xst)
  L-Edit 11 setup file (.tdb)
  L-Edit Student Version (7.12) setup file (.tdb)

  EE 327 design rules
  MOSIS design rules

  L-Edit student version
  L-Edit tutorial — Bahar, Brown University EN 160
SPICE Materials

  PSPICE Student Version Download

  PSPICE (OrCAD Capture) Lite 9.2 on CD-ROM -
    see instructor or TA

  PSPICE - inverter transfer curve - Nash

  PowerPoint presentation

  Inverter example
  NAND gate example
  NOR gate example
  D flip-flop test file
  Final project test file

  SPICE Basics - Kovacs, Stanford EE 122
  SPICE Brief Overview - Van der Spiegel, U Penn

Lab Activities Resources


  CD4007 Intersil data sheet
 

 

 

Other Links

  How Chips Are Made,
   from the Education Programs at Intel
  Microelectronics 101 at IBM Microelectronics
  PN diode fabrication, from
   Education Applets in Solid State Materials,
   Center for Active Learning of Microelectronics
   and Photonics at SUNY Buffalo
  Diode and transistor animations, SUNY Buffalo

  Edge-triggered D flip-flop with preset and clear
  Flip-flops

  MIT EECS OpenCourseWare
  Introduction to Physical Electronics
   (connexions - Rice)
  Principles of Semiconductor Devices
  VLSI Curriculum - Intel, University of Michigan

  Electromigration and Reliability

  Moore's "Law"  —  1965 paper

  NIST – Constants, Units, and Uncertainty

Iddq - Fault Currents

Iddq - Fault Currents



  Textbooks

     
  Title Authors Comment
  Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits David A. Hodges, Horace G. Jackson, and Resve A. Saleh   * Errata *  
  Physical Design of CMOS Integrated Circuits Using L-Edit (Optional) John P. Uyemura    



  Other References

     
  Title Authors    
  CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis and Design, Third Edition Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang and Yusuf Leblebici    
  Digital Integrated Circuits, Second Edition Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolic    
  Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, Second Edition Neil H. E. Weste and Kamran Eshraghian    
  Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, Third Edition Neil H. E. Weste and David Harris    
 
  Inside SPICE Ron Kielkowski    
  MOSFET Modeling with SPICE Daniel Foty    
  Operation and Modeling of the MOS Transistor Yannis P. Tsividis    
  SPICE Gordon W. Roberts and Adel S. Sedra    
 
  Analog Integrated Circuit Design David A. Johns and Ken Martin    
  CMOS Mixed-Signal Design R. Jacob Baker    
 
  CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation R. Jacob Baker, Harry W. Li, and David E. Boyce    
  CMOS IC Layout Dan Clein    




  Instructor P. Thomas Vernier 310.448.8752 Tom Vernier@  
    Office Hours Tu Thu 11:00–12:00 SSC 312 or by appointment  
           
  Teaching Assistant Brent Nash   Brent Nash@  
  Teaching Assistant Keith Takishita   Keith Takishita@  
    Office Hours M W F 12:30–13:45 OHE picnic tables (or RTH)  



 
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