Lectures EE215B - Ingrid Verbauwhede - Winter 2002

Lectures

• Lecture 1 - Introduction - Motivation Practical stuff (PDF file) Intro on scaling (PDF file)
• Lecture 2 - Scaling (PDF file)
• Lecture 3 - The Wire (PDF file)
  First Class presentation by Hanish Rathod and Gordon Chu: C. Svensson "The limits to High-Speed Electronics" (PDF file)
• Lecture 4 - Continuation of the wire
  Class presentation by Chung Yeol Lee and Chien-Hwa Tou: C. Belady, "Cooling and Power Considerations" (PDF file)
• Lecture 5 - Martin Luther King - no class
• Lecture 6 - Transmission lines (PDF file)
  and S. Morton, "Techniques for driving interconnect."
  Chapter 17 in "Design of High Performance Microprocessor circuits", A. Chandrakasan, W. Bowhill, F. Fox (Editors), IEEE Press, 2001.
  no soft copy available.
• Lecture 7 - Techniques for driving interconnect (cont.)
  Class presentation by Alice Chan and Xiong Liu: A. Vittal, M. Sadowski, "Crosstalk reduction for VLSI" (PDF file)
• Lecture 8 - Coping with interconnect (PDF file)
  Class presentation by Mehrnia Alireza and Bagheri Rahim: J. Meindl and others, "Limits to Semiconductor technology" (PDF file)
• Lecture 9 - Coping with interconnect (finish) (PDF file)
  Class presentation by Saeed Chehrazi and Jenwei Ko: "Inductance 101" (PDF file)
• Lecture 10 - Circuit Styles (PDF file)
  Class presentation by Jongsun Kim: High Bandwidth Memory Bus (PDF file)
• Lecture 11 - Dynamic Circuit Styles (Note these copies were not distributed in class!) (PDF file)
  Class presentation by Jin-seong Jeong and Jin Tae Kim: M. Allam, M. Elmasry, "Dynamic Current Mode Logic" and M. Allam, M. Anis, M. Elmasry, "High Speed Dynamic Logic Styles"(PDF file)
• Lecture 12 - Midterm
• Lecture 13 - President's day
• Lecture 14 - Power Optimization (PDF file)
  Class presentation by Steve Hsu and Ping-Hsuan Hsieh: P. Gronowski, "Issues in Dynamic Logic Design," Chapter 8 in Design of High Performance Microprocessor Circuits (PDF file)
• Lecture 15 - Power Optimization (cont.) - Sequential circuits
  A. Chandrakasan, R. Brodersen, "Minimizing Power Consumption in Digital CMOS circuits," IEEE Proceedings, Vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 498-523, 1995.
  Sequential circuits
  Class presentation by C. Oberli and Hojung Lu, Hamid Partovi "Clocked Storage Elements," Chapter 11 in Design of High Performance Microprocessor Circuits (PDF file)
• Lecture 16 - Sequential circuits (PDF file)
• Lecture 17 - Sequential circuits -2nd part
  Chapter Hamid Partovi "Clocked Storage Elements," Chapter 11 in Design of High Performance Microprocessor Circuits
• Lecture 18 - Adiabatic Design
  Class presentation by Hamid H. and Mohammad Heidari, (part 1 PDF file) (part 2 PDF file)
• Lecture 19 - Memory design (PDF file)
  Class presentation by Matt Berguson and Joseph Chang, Issues in Low Power Memory Design (PDF file)
• Lecture 20 - Memory design (cont.) - continue handout of last class (PDF file)
  Class presentation by Jatin Bathia and Yanbao Ma, "Design for Manufacturability", (PDF file) Chapter 15 of CMOS Digital Integrated circuits, Analysis and Design, by S.M Kang, Y. Leblebici,
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  BELOW ARE THE LECTURES FROM LAST QUARTER, AS WE GO THIS LINE WILL MOVE DOWN.