Advanced Digital Integrated CircuitsThis course aims to convey a knowledge of advanced concepts of circuit design for digital VLSI components in state of the art MOS technologies. Emphasis is on the circuit design, optimization, and layout of either very high speed, high density or low power circuits for use in applications such as micro-processors, signal and multimedia processors, memory and periphery. Special attention will devoted to the most important challenges facing digital circuit designers today and in the coming decade, being the impact of scaling, deep submicron effects, interconnect, signal integrity, power distribution and consumption, and timing.
This semester, extra focus will be given to the following topics: Low power and low-voltage, process variations and robustness, and memory design in the nanoscale era. This will reflected in both the lectures and the preferred projects.