Principles of VLSI Design

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker walker@cs.kent.edu MSB 351, 672-9105 Office hours = most afternoons 2-3pm, or by appt.	Teaching Assistant: Ms. Ping Xu pxu@cs.kent.edu MSB 353, 672-3123 Office hours = see her web page
Syllabus Syllabus (8/25/03) An Article on the Course "A Practical One-Semester 'VLSI Design' Course for Computer Science (and Other) Majors", Robert A. Walker, in Proc. of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Technical Symposium, pages 237-241. ACM, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1999. (Unofficial version: pdf ps)	Miscellaneous My spring 2002 VLSI web page My spring 2000 VLSI web page My spring 1998 VLSI web page Online Books Web page for "Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems", James O. Hamblen and Michael D. Furman "Application-Specific Integrated Circuits", Michael Smith
Exams 10/17/03 Midterm Exam -- Exam Solution Mean = 89.4, standard deviation = 7.7 12/10/03 Final Exam -- Exam Solution Mean = 81.4, standard deviation = 9.5	Project Assignments Project 1 Assignment (due by 5pm on 9/26/03) Project 2 Assignment (due by 5pm on 10/10/03) Project 3 Assignment (due by 5pm on 11/5/03) Project 4 Assignment (due by 5pm on 11/21/03) Project 5 Assignment (demos on 12/3 and 12/5, writeup due by 5pm on 12/5/03
Lecture Notes 8/25/03 Lecture 01 -- Course Overview & EDA Introduction 8/27/03 Lecture 02 -- Logic Synthesis & ICs 8/29/03 Lecture 03 -- ASICs vs. FPLDs 9/1/03 Class Cancelled (Labor Day) 9/3/03 Lecture 04 -- Economics of ASICs 9/5/03 Lecture 05 -- Combinational Circuits pdf -- from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University -- 9/8/03 Lecture 06 -- Schematic Capture in Max+PlusII pdf 9/10/03 Lecture 07 -- Altera's Max+PlusII Overview pdf 9/12/03 Class Cancelled 9/15/03 Lecture 08 -- Sequential Circuits pdf -- from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University -- 9/17/03 Lecture 09 -- Sequential Circuits (Cont.) 9/19/03 Lecture 10 -- Sequential Circuits (Cont.) 9/22/03 Lecture 11 -- Circuit Building Blocks pdf -- from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University -- 9/24/03 Lecture 12 -- Circuit Building Blocks (cont.) 9/26/03 Lecture 13 -- Altera UP1 & Hamblen Tutorials pdf 9/29/03 Lecture 14 -- AHDL Introduction Part I -- lecture by Ms. Ping Xu 10/1/03 Lecture 15 -- AHDL Introduction Part II -- lecture by Ms. Meiduo Wu 10/3/03 Class Cancelled 10/6/03 Lecture 16 -- Simple AHDL Examples -- lecture by Ms. Ping Xu 10/8/03 Lecture 17 -- Advanced AHDL 10/10/03 Lecture 18 -- AHDL Examples (Electronic Lock) 10/13/03 Lecture 19 -- AHDL Examples (Temperature Controller) 10/15/03 Lecture 20 -- AHDL Examples (SIMP Microprocessor) 10/17/03 Midterm Exam 10/20/03 Lecture 21 -- Altera ChipTrip Tutorial 10/22/03 Lecture 22 -- FPGA Introduction Part I pdf 10/24/03 Lecture 23 -- FPGA Introduction Part II pdf	Lecture Notes (cont.) 10/27/03 Lecture 24 -- Actel ACT pdf 10/29/03 Lecture 25 -- Altera MAX pdf 10/31/03 Lecture 26 -- Altera FLEX 8000 pdf 11/3/03 Lecture 27 -- Altera FLEX 10K & APEX pdf 11/5/03 Lecture 28 -- Altera Products 11/7/03 Lecture 29 -- Xilinx XC400 pdf 11/10/03 Lecture 30 -- VHDL Introduction Part I 11/12/03 Lecture 31 -- VHDL Introduction Part II 11/14/03 Lecture 32 -- VHDL Examples 11/17/03 Lecture 33 -- CMOS Part I pdf 11/19/03 Lecture 34 -- CMOS Part II pdf 11/21/03 Open Lab (Class Cancelled) 11/24/03 Open Lab (Class Cancelled) 11/26/03 Class Cancelled (Thanksgiving) 11/28/03 Class Cancelled (Thanksgiving) 12/1/03 Open Lab (Class Cancelled) 12/3/03 Final Project Demos 12/5/03 Final Project Demos Lecture Followups Altera Corporation MAX+PLUS II Documentation Overview Data Sheet (pdf) Getting Started: Tutorial (local copy) FPGAs & CPLDs