Course Details

Course Information Package

Course Unit TitleDIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS II
Course Unit CodeAEEE439
Course Unit Details
Number of ECTS credits allocated5
Learning Outcomes of the course unitBy the end of the course, the students should be able to:
  1. Review of the basic characteristics of CMOS Logic gates. Understand the operation Clocked Logic. Examine in detail the operation of the MOS Transistor and Shift registers. Familiarise with CMOS Circuit Design and CMOS n-Well Fabrication Process and design rules. Examine the concepts of Parasitics, Latchup and Buffer Stages.
  2. Study the static and dynamic performance of sequential circuit. Apply timing and clock synchronisation techniques.
  3. Apply CAD/ CAE software to design and simulate various digital integrated circuits.
  4. Familiarise with the operation of complicated CMOS based adders, multipliers, flip flops, and RAM devices. Design and simulate using CAD simulation package complicated CMOS based devices
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
PrerequisitesAEEE192,AEEE438Co-requisitesNONE
Recommended optional program componentsNONE
Course Contents

CMOS Logic Gates.  Clocked Logic.  Registers, Shift registers.  MOS Transistor - Detailed Operation.  CMOS Circuit Design CMOS NWell Fabrication Process.  Design Rules.  Parasitics.  Latchup.  Buffer Stages.

Static, Dynamic  sequential circuits: Timing and clock synchronization, pipelining, Wires; Coping with Interconnects 

Circuit Simulation. CMOS system design, Floor plan, Placement and routing, Project design, Deep sub-micron designs; design for performance.

VLSI design examples: CMOS based adders, multipliers, flip flops, Memory structures and RAM devices.

Recommended and/or required reading:
Textbooks
  • R.C. Jaegger, Microelectronic Circuit Design, McGraW Hill, 1997
References
  • D. Hodges, H. Jackson and R. Saleh, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits, McGraw Hill, 2003
  • J. M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan and B. Nikolic, Digital Integrated Circuits, Prentice Hall, 2002
Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Students are taught the course through lectures (3 hours per week) in classrooms or lectures theatres, by means of traditional tools or using computer demonstration.

Auditory exercises, where examples regarding matter represented at the lectures, are solved and further, questions related to particular open-ended topic issues are compiled by the students and answered, during the lecture or assigned as homework.

Topic notes are compiled by students, during the lecture which serve to cover the main issues under consideration and can also be downloaded from the lecturer’s webpage. Students are also advised to use the subject’s textbook or reference books for further reading and practice in solving related exercises. Tutorial problems are also submitted as homework and these are solved during lectures or privately during lecturer’s office hours. Further literature search is encouraged by assigning students to identify a specific problem related to some issue, gather relevant scientific information about how others have addressed the problem and report this information in written or orally.

Students are assessed continuously and their knowledge is checked through tests with their assessment weight, date and time being set at the beginning of the semester via the course outline.

Students are prepared for final exam, by revision on the matter taught, problem solving and concept testing and are also trained to be able to deal with time constraints and revision timetable.

The final assessment of the students is formative and summative and is assured to comply with the subject’s expected learning outcomes and the quality of the course.

Assessment methods and criteria
Assignments10%
Tests30%
Final Exam60%
Language of instructionEnglish
Work placement(s)NO

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