Principles of VLSI Design

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker walker@cs.kent.edu MSB 233a, (330) 672-9055 Office hours = most afternoons 2-3pm, or by appt.	Teaching Assistant: Mr. Kevin Schaffer kschaffe@cs.kent.edu MSB 353 (VLSI Design Lab), (330) 672-3123 Office hours = by appointment (send email)
Syllabus Syllabus (1/18/06)	Miscellaneous My previous VLSI Design course web pages: Fall 2004 Fall 2003 Spring 2002 Spring 2000 Spring 1998
Exams 3/22/06 Midterm Exam (Lectures 01-16) Exam Solution 5/8/06 Final Exam (Lectures 18-24) Exam Solution	Project Assignments Project 1 Assignment (due by 5:30pm on 2/8/06) Project 2 Assignment (due by 5:30pm on 3/1/06) Project 3 Assignment (due by 5:30pm on 3/15/06) Project 4 Assignment (due by 5:30pm on 4/19/06) Final Project (Project 5) Assignment (demo in class on 5/3/06, report due by 3:00pm on 5/4/06)
Lecture Notes 1/18/06 Lecture 01 -- Course & EDA Intro 1/23/06 Lecture 02 -- ASICs vs. FPLDs 1/25/06 Lecture 03 -- Combinational Circuits (from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University) 1/30/06 Lecture 03 -- Combinational Circuits (cont.) Lecture 04 -- Installing Max+PlusII 2/1/06 Lecture 05 -- Demo of Max+PlusII 2/6/06 Lecture 06 -- Altera Max+PlusII Overview 2/8/06 Lecture 07 -- Sequential Circuits (from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University) 2/13/06 Lecture 08 -- State Machines (from old CS 314 notes from Cornell University) 2/15/06 Lecture 09 -- Altera UP1 & Max+PlusII 2/20/06 Lecture 10 -- AHDL Introduction 2/22/06 Lecture 11 -- AHDL Introduction (cont.) 2/27/06 Lecture 12 -- Circuit Building Blocks, Part I 3/1/06 Lecture 13 -- Circuit Building Blocks, Part II Building Blocks in AHDL 3/6/06 Lecture 14 -- Advanced AHDL 3/8/06 Lecture 15 -- Advanced AHDL (cont.) 3/13/06 Class Cancelled 3/15/06 Lecture 16 -- AHDL Examples, Part I	Lecture Notes (cont.) 3/20/06 Lecture 17 -- AHDL Examples, Part II 3/22/06 Midterm Exam (Lectures 01-16) 3/27/06 Class Cancelled (Spring Break) 3/29/06 Class Cancelled (Spring Break) 4/3/06 Lecture 18 -- VHDL Introduction, Part I 4/5/06 Lecture 19 -- VHDL Introduction, Part II 4/10/06 Lecture 20 -- VHDL Examples See also Intro to VHDL for Comb. Logic (by Bob Reese at MS State) 4/12/06 Please attend CS Colloquium 4/17/06 Lecture 21 -- Introduction to FPLDs 4/19/06 Lecture 22 -- Actel ACT & Altera MAX 4/24/06 Lecture 23 -- Altera FLEX & APEX 4/25/06 Lecture 24 -- Selecting an FPLD 5/1/06 Class Cancelled (Open Lab) 5/3/06 Class Presentations (in VLSI Lab) 5/8/06 Final Exam (Lectures 18-24) Lecture Followups Altera Corporation MAX+PLUS II BASELINE software MAX+PLUS II Documentation Getting Started: Tutorial (local copy) FPGAs & CPLDs
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.	Online Books Web page for "Rapid Prototyping of Digital Systems", James O. Hamblen and Michael D. Furman "Application-Specific Integrated Circuits", Michael Smith