Principles of VLSI Design

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker walker@cs.kent.edu Research Office: MSB 351, (330) 672-9105 Administrative Office: MSB 241B, (330) 672-9514 Office hours = most afternoons 2-3pm, or by appt.	Teaching Assistant: Mr. Hong Wang hwang1@kent.edu Office: MSB 353, (330) 672-3123 Office hours = see his web page ...
Syllabus Syllabus (8/30/04) 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.	Miscellaneous My fall 2003 VLSI web page 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 11/3/04 Midterm Exam -- Exam Solution Mean = 83.8, standard deviation = 7.5 12/13/04 Final Exam -- Exam Solution Mean = 80.0, standard deviation = 6.2	Project Assignments Project 1 Assignment (due by 5pm on 9/29/04) Project 2 Assignment (due by 5pm on 10/13/04) Project 3 Assignment (due by 5pm on 10/27/04) Project 4 Assignment (due by 5pm on 11/17/04) Project 5 Assignment (demos on 12/8, reports due by 3pm on 12/9/04)
Lecture Notes 8/30/04 Lecture 01 -- Course & EDA Intro 9/1/04 Lecture 02 -- ASICs vs. FPLDs 9/6/04 Class Cancelled (Labor Day) 9/8/04 Class Cancelled 9/13/04 Lecture 03 -- Combinational Circuits (from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University) 9/15/04 Lecture 03 -- Combinational Circuits (cont.) Lecture 04 -- Schematic Capture in Max+PlusII 9/20/04 Lecture 05 -- Max+PlusII Demo 9/22/04 Lecture 06 -- Max+PlusII Overview 9/27/04 Lecture 07 -- Sequential Circuits (from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University) 9/29/04 Lecture 08 -- State Machines (same notes as Lecture 07) 10/4/04 Lecture 09 -- Altera UP1 & Max+PlusII 10/6/04 Class Cancelled 10/11/04 Lecture 10 -- AHDL Introduction, Part I 10/13/04 Lecture 11 -- AHDL Introduction, Part II 10/18/04 Lecture 12 -- Circuit Building Blocks (from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University) 10/20/04 Lecture 12 -- Building Blocks (cont.) Lecture 13 -- AHDL Examples	Lecture Notes (cont.) 10/25/04 Lecture 14 -- Advanced AHDL 10/27/04 Lecture 15 -- AHDL Examples 11/1/04 Lecture 16 -- AHDL Examples 11/3/04 Midterm Exam 11/8/04 Lecture 17 -- VHDL Introduction 11/10/04 Lecture 18 -- VHDL Examples 11/15/04 Lecture 19 -- Intro to FPLDs 11/17/04 Lecture 20 -- Actel ACT & Altera MAX 11/22/04 Lecture 21 Altera FLEX & APEX 11/24/04 Class Cancelled (Thanksgiving) 11/29/04 Lecture 22 CMOS & Economics 12/1/04 Class Cancelled (Open Lab) 12/6/04 Class Cancelled (Open Lab) 12/8/04 Project Presentations (in VLSI Lab) 12/13/04 Final Exam (5:45-8:00PM, MSB 115) Lecture Followups Altera Corporation MAX+PLUS II BASELINE software MAX+PLUS II Documentation Overview Data Sheet (local copy) Getting Started: Tutorial (local copy) FPGAs & CPLDs