1. Digital Integrated Circuits Introduction Philip Leong CEG3470 Digital Circuits

2. Digital Integrated Circuits Introduction General l Lecturer: Philip Leong (phwl) l Tutor: Brian Li (mhli) l WWW: »http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~phwl/ceg3470/ceg3470.html »Lecture notes will be posted here. They will be updated as we go so look out for changes! »Tutorial questions will also be posted here. You must hand in solutions every week starting week 2.

3. Digital Integrated Circuits Introduction Text and References l Text »J.M. Rabaey, “Digital Integrated Circuits”, Prentice 2002. l References »Hodges and Jackson, “Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits in Deep Submicron Technology”, McGraw-Hill, 3 rd Edition 2003 »* Horowitz and Hill, “The Art of Electronics”, Cambridge Uni Press 1989 (* I think every Engineer and Scientist should own this book)

4. Digital Integrated Circuits Introduction Assessment l Grading Scheme »50% final exam »20% assignment »20% midterm »10% tutorials

5. Digital Integrated Circuits Introduction Assumed knowledge l ERG2020 (Digital Systems) »combinatorial and sequential circuits »noise immunity, power supply decoupling, fanin, fanout l ELE1110 (Circuit theory) »diode, MOS, BJT models »large and small signal analyssi »circuit theory

6. Digital Integrated Circuits Introduction Objectives l Analysis of digital logic gates (CMOS) »TF, noise margin, loading, propagation delay, fanout, power etc »hand calculations, MATLAB models, SPICE l Introduction to CMOS VLSI design »fabrication »design and layout »tradeoffs (low power, speed, cost etc)

7. Digital Integrated Circuits Introduction Lecture schedule (subject to change) l Introduction »Computers & VLSI l Analysis of Digital Logic Gates »Devices (revision) »Inverters »Combinatorial logic »Sequential logic l CMOS VLSI »Manufacturing »Low power design »Interconnect »Timing »Arithmetic »Design methodologies