ECTS - VLSI Design
VLSI Design (EE432) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| VLSI Design | EE432 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| EE 315 |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | N/A |
| Course Level | Natural & Applied Sciences Master's Degree |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Demonstration. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 30 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | X |
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| 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 | Ability to apply knowledge on Mathematics, Science and Engineering to advanced systems. | X | ||||
| 2 | Implementing long-term research and development studies in the major fields of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. | X | ||||
| 3 | Ability to use modern engineering tools, techniques and facilities in design and other engineering applications. | X | ||||
| 4 | Graduating researchers active on innovation and entrepreneurship. | |||||
| 5 | Ability to report and present research results effectively. | |||||
| 6 | Increasing the performance on accessing information resources and on following recent developments in science and technology. | |||||
| 7 | An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. | |||||
| 8 | Increasing the performance on effective communications in both Turkish and English. | |||||
| 9 | Increasing the performance on project management. | |||||
| 10 | Ability to work successfully at project teams in interdisciplinary fields. | |||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| 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 | ||