VLSI Design (EE432) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
VLSI Design EE432 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
EE 315
Course Language English
Course Type N/A
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Demonstration.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Course Assistants
Course Objectives
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Ability to describe the problems associated with the interconnect parasitics and discuss the associated remedies
  • Calculate timing parameters for synchronous circuits in presence of clock skew and jitter
  • Discuss clock distribution techniques
  • Discuss implementation strategies for digital IC’s
  • Analyse and design arithmetic building blocks such as adder, multiplier, shifter in block diagram level
  • Describe testing and verification issues in digital IC design
Course Content Sequential circuits, pipelining. Interconnects: Effects of capacitive and resistive parasitics and solutions. Timing of digital circuits, clock skew and jitter, Clock distribution techniques. Design of arithmetic blocks: Adder, Shifter, Comparator, Multiplier. Designing memory and array structures. Design Methodology and tools. Testing and verifica

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Layout design rules, Layout techniques for complex logic circuits Glance at Lecture Notes 1
2 Layout techniques for complex logic circuits (cont’d) Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
3 Effect of capacitive and resistive parasitics, Advanced interconnect techniques Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
4 Synchronous timing, clock skew, jitter, clock distribution techniques Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
5 Implementation strategies for digital IC’s, cell-based and array-based approaches Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
6 Implementation strategies for digital IC’s, cell-based and array-based approaches Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
7 Designing Arithmetic Building Blocks, adder, multiplier, shifter Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
8 Designing Arithmetic Building Blocks, adder, multiplier, shifter (cont’d) Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
9 Designing Arithmetic Building Blocks, adder, multiplier, shifter (cont’d) Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
10 Designing Memory and Array Structures Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
11 Önceki hafta notlarını gözen geçiriniz, bu haftaki ders notlarına göz atınız Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
12 Designing Memory and Array Structures (cont’d) Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
13 Önceki hafta notlarını gözen geçiriniz, bu haftaki ders notlarına göz atınız Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
14 Validation and testing (cont'd) Review last week and Glance this week’s topics from the lecture
15 Final examination Review course material
16 Final examination Review course material

Sources

Other Sources 1. CMOS VLSI Design, Weste, Harris, Addison Wesley

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments - -
Presentation - -
Project 1 30
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 2 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 30
Toplam 4 90
Percentage of Semester Work 70
Percentage of Final Work 30
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Accumulated knowledge on mathematics, science and mechatronics engineering; an ability to apply the theoretical and applied knowledge of mathematics, science and mechatronics engineering to model and analyze mechatronics engineering problems.
2 An ability to differentiate, identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems; an ability to select and implement proper analysis, modeling and implementation techniques for the identified engineering problems.
3 An ability to design a complex system, product, component or process to meet the requirements under realistic constraints and conditions; an ability to apply contemporary design methodologies; an ability to implement effective engineering creativity techniques in mechatronics engineering. (Realistic constraints and conditions may include economics, environment, sustainability, producibility, ethics, human health, social and political problems.)
4 An ability to develop, select and use modern techniques, skills and tools for application of mechatronics engineering and robot technologies; an ability to use information and communications technologies effectively.
5 An ability to design experiments, perform experiments, collect and analyze data and assess the results for investigated problems on mechatronics engineering and robot technologies.
6 An ability to work effectively on single disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams; an ability for individual work; ability to communicate and collaborate/cooperate effectively with other disciplines and scientific/engineering domains or working areas, ability to work with other disciplines.
7 An ability to express creative and original concepts and ideas effectively in Turkish and English language, oral and written, and technical drawings.
8 An ability to reach information on different subjects required by the wide spectrum of applications of mechatronics engineering, criticize, assess and improve the knowledge-base; consciousness on the necessity of improvement and sustainability as a result of life-long learning; monitoring the developments on science and technology; awareness on entrepreneurship, innovative and sustainable development and ability for continuous renovation.
9 Consciousness on professional and ethical responsibility, competency on improving professional consciousness and contributing to the improvement of profession itself.
10 A knowledge on the applications at business life such as project management, risk management and change management and competency on planning, managing and leadership activities on the development of capabilities of workers who are under his/her responsibility working around a project.
11 Knowledge about the global, societal and individual effects of mechatronics engineering applications on the human health, environment and security and cultural values and problems of the era; consciousness on these issues; awareness of legal results of engineering solutions.
12 Competency on defining, analyzing and surveying databases and other sources, proposing solutions based on research work and scientific results and communicate and publish numerical and conceptual solutions.
13 Consciousness on the environment and social responsibility, competencies on observation, improvement and modify and implementation of projects for the society and social relations and be an individual within the society in such a way that planing, improving or changing the norms with a criticism.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 14 4 56
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 2 6 12
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 6 6
Total Workload 122