Elect Engr & Computer Science - Digital VLSI

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This course covers the basic concepts of Integrated Circuit (IC) design, various methods of designing VLSI circuits, and techniques to analyze and optimize performance metrics, such as: speed, area, power and signal integrity. Clocking, interconnect and scaling issues of IC will also be discussed. The topic will cover device, interconnect and circuit level implementation issues of both logic and memory circuits. It will also briefly introduce the high performance issues, fabrication technologies and system level implementation approaches of IC to establish bridges to the advanced courses. Prerequisite: EECS 312.