Principles of Customized VLSI Design

Instructor: Dr. Robert Walker walker@mcs.kent.edu MSB 351, 672-4004 ext. 351 Office hours = Tu Th 1-3pm, and by appt.	Teaching Assistant: none
Syllabus & Announcements Syllabus (1/20/98) ps pdf Schedule (4/29/98) ps pdf How to view the lectures How to view/print on a Mac or PC Easier PC setup	Miscellaneous Course Advertisement #1 Course Advertisement #2 Online books Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, Michael Smith Contemporary Logic Design, Randy Katz
Exams Exam 1 (3/20/97) Solution Mean = 88.5, Standard Deviation = 6.7 Final Exam (5/11/97) Solution Mean = 83.5, Standard Deviation = 5.9 ORCA OR3 Product Brief (Acrobat pdf)	Project Assignments Project 1 (due 2/20, 2/25, & 3/6) Part 2 solution sketch Project 2 (due 4/15, 4/20, & 5/6) Elaboration on what to turn in
Lecture Notes 1/21/98 Lecture 01 -- Introduction 1/23/98 Lecture 02 -- Types of ASICs 1/26/98 Lecture 03 -- Economics of ASICs 1/28/98 Lecture 04 -- finish previous lectures 1/30/98 Lecture 05 -- Combinational Logic 2/2/98 Lecture 06 -- Sequential Logic 2/4/98 Lecture 07 -- State Machines 2/6/98 Lecture 08 -- Design Entry 2/9/98 Lecture 09 -- Schematic Capture 2/11/98 Lecture 10 -- Viewlogic Office 2/13/98 Lecture 11 -- Viewlogic Office 2/16/98 Lecture 12 -- Viewlogic Office 2/18/98 Lecture 13 -- CMOS Transistors 2/20/98 Lecture 14 -- CMOS Fabrication 2/23/98 Lecture 15 -- CMOS Design Rules 2/25/98 Lecture 16 -- Toward FPLDs 2/27/98 Lecture 17 -- Types of FPLDs 3/2/98 Lecture 18 -- Actel ACT 3/4/98 Lecture 19 -- finish previous lecture 3/6/98 Lecture 20 -- Altera MAX 3/9/98 Lecture 21 -- Altera FLEX 3/11/98 Lecture 22 -- Altera FLEX 10K, Demo Board 3/13/98 Lecture 23 -- Xilinx XC4000 3/16/98 Traffic Light Project Presenations 5 minutes each from Childs, Hultgren, Kazempour, Martin, Miao, and Wissman 3/18/98 Other Project Presenations 5 minutes each from Jerkofsky, Sagert, Qiu, Chalmers, and Stranger 3/30/98 Lecture 24 -- Altera MAX+PLUS II Intro 4/1/98 Lecture 25 -- Altera MAX+PLUS II Tools 4/3/98 Lecture 26 -- AHDL, Part I 4/6/98 Lecture 27 -- AHDL, Part II 4/8/98 Lecture 28 -- AHDL Examples 4/10/98 No lecture (Good Friday / Passover) 4/13/98 Lecture 29 -- SimP Microprocessor 4/15/98 Lecture 30 -- VHDL, Part I 4/17/98 No lecture 4/20/98 Lecture 31 -- VHDL, Part II 4/22/98 Lecture 32 -- VHDL, Part III 4/24/98 Lecture 33 -- High-Level Synthesis 4/27/98 Lecture 34 -- Scheduling, Part I 4/29/98 Lecture 35 -- Scheduling, Part II 5/1/98 Lecture 36 -- Data Path Synthesis	Lecture Notes (cont.) 5/4/98 No lecture 5/6/98 Final Project Presentations Class meets from 1:00-2:30 in VLSI Design Lab 10 minutes each from Chalmers, Jerkofsky, Kazempour, Martin, Qiu, and Stranger 5/8/98 Final Project Presentations Class meets from 1:00-2:30 in VLSI Design Lab 10 minutes each from Childs, Hultgren, Miao, Sagert, and Wissman Also: Class Evaluations, Discussion of Final Lecture Followups KMap -> PLA Demonstration (Java) TTL Chip directory 7400 series 74ALS00 series data sheets from Phillips Links to FPGA WWW servers Altera Corporation Device documenation MAX 7000 documentation (Acrobat pdf) FLEX 8000 documentation (Acrobat pdf) FLEX 10K documentation (Acrobat pdf) Megafunctions Megafunctions MegaCore Functions Megafunction Partners Program MAX+PLUS II documentation Overview data sheet (Acrobat pdf) Getting Started: Installation (Acrobat pdf) Getting Started: Perspective (Acrobat pdf) Getting Started: Tutorial (Acrobat pdf) Altera University Program UP1 Education Board docs (Acrobat pdf) UP1 supplemental docs (Acrobat pdf) Xilinx Corporation Xilinx, etc. prices from Marshal XC4000 documentation (Acrobat pdf) Introduction to the Scheduling Problem, Robert A. Walker and Samit Chaudhuri, IEEE Design and Test, 12(2):60-69, Summer 1995.