ELG 4137 Principles and Applications of VLSI Design

3 units
Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Introduction to VLSI technology. Electrical properties of NMOS and CMOS transistors. NMOS subsystem design and layout. Subsystem design and layout using simple static, complex static, and dynamic domino CMOS lo gic circuits. Designs of NMOS and CMOS PLA, finite state machines and memory systems. System designs using BiCMOS technology, GaAs technology, gate arrays and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays.

Components:

Laboratory
Lecture
Tutorial

Requirements:

Prerequisite: ELG 2136 .

Previously Offered Terms:

Winter

French Equivalent:

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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