Principles of Customized VLSI Design

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker walker@cs.kent.edu MSB 351, 672-9105 Office hours = TR 1-3pm, and by appt.	Teaching Assistant: Ms. Meiduo Wu mwu@cs.kent.edu MSB 351, (330) 672-3123 Office hours = by appt.
Syllabus Syllabus (1/14/02) ps pdf 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 Viewing the course materials My spring 2000 VLSI web page My spring 1998 VLSI web page Hiram College's spring 2000 VLSI web page Itinerary for class trip to Silicon Valley Pictures from class trip to Silicon Valley Online Books Web page for "Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems", James O. Hamblen and Michael D. Furman "Application-Specific Integrated Circuits", Michael Smith "Contemporary Logic Design", Randy Katz
Exams 3/6/02 Midterm Exam pdf Solution pdf 5/6/02 Final Exam pdf Solution pdf	Project Assignments Project 1 pdf (due by 5pm on 2/15/02) Project 2 pdf (due by 5pm on 3/1/02) Project 3 pdf (due by 5pm on 4/12/02) Project 4 pdf (due by 4:30p on 5/1/02)
Lecture Notes 1/14/02 Lecture 01 -- Introduction pdf 1/16/02 Lecture 02 -- ASICs vs FPLDs pdf 1/21/02 Class Cancelled (Martin Luther King Day) 1/23/02 Lecture 03 -- Combinational Circuits pdf -- from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University -- 1/28/02 Lecture 04 -- Schematic Capture pdf 1/30/02 Lecture 05 -- Altera MAX+PLUS II Part I pdf 2/4/02 Class Cancelled (snow) 2/6/02 Lecture 06 -- Sequential Circuits Part I pdf -- from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University -- 2/11/02 Lecture 07 -- Sequential Circuits Part II 2/13/02 Lecture 08 -- Circuit Building Blocks pdf -- from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University -- 2/18/02 Lecture 09 -- Hamblen Tutorials pdf 2/20/02 Lecture 10 -- FPLDs Part I pdf 2/25/02 Lecture 11 -- FPLDs Part II pdf 2/27/02 Open Lab Session in VLSI Design Lab 3/4/02 Class Cancelled 3/6/02 Midterm Exam 3/11/02 AHDL Intro Part I (Salcic 4) 3/13/02 AHDL Intro Part II (Salcic 4) 3/18/02 AHDL Examples Part I (Salcic 5 & 6) 3/20/02 AHDL Examples Part II (Salcic 6 & 7) 4/1/02 Altera ChipTrip Tutorial 4/3/02 VHDL Intro Part I (Hamblen 6)	Lecture Notes (cont.) 4/8/02 VHDL Intro Part II (Hamblen 8 & 13) 4/10/02 CMOS Transistors & Fabrication pdf 4/15/02 Class Cancelled 4/17/02 Class Cancelled 4/22/02 Altera MAX Family pdf 4/24/02 Altera FLEX Family pdf 5/1/02 Xilinx XC400 Family pdf 5/3/02 Project Demos Lecture Followups Altera Corporation MAX+PLUS II Documentation Overview Data Sheet (pdf) Getting Started: Installation (pdf) Getting Started: Perspective (pdf) Getting Started: Tutorial (pdf) Temporary local copy FPLD Products MAX 7000 Family (html) MAX 7000 Data Sheet (pdf) FLEX 8K Family (html) FLEX 8K Data Sheet (pdf) FLEX 10K Family (html) FLEX 10K Data Sheet (pdf) APEX 20K Family (html) APEX 20K Data Sheet (pdf) Xilinx Corporation FPLD Products XC4000 Family (html) XC4000 Data Sheet (pdf)