Miscellaneous Handouts

• Course Syllabus
• Next Steps after First Lecture
• Lab Assignment Assessment Rubric
• Project Report Assessment Rubric
• Tiny RISC-V Instruction Set Specification
• PyMTL RTL Usage Rules
• Verilog RTL Usage Rules
• Linux, Git, PyMTL, Verilog Cheat Sheet

Lecture Handouts

• Course Overview (notes)
• Topic 1: Hardware Description Languages (notes)
• Topic 2: CMOS Devices (notes)
• Topic 3: CMOS Circuits (notes)
• Topic 4: Full-Custom Design Methodology (notes)
• Topic 5: Automated Design Methodologies (notes)
• Topic 6: Closing the Gap Between ASIC and Custom (notes)
• Topic 7: Packaging, Power Distribution, Clocking, and I/O
• Topic 8: Testing and Verification
• Topic 9: CMOS Combinational Logic (notes)
• Topic 10: CMOS Sequential State (notes)
• Topic 11: CMOS Interconnect (notes, video)
• Topic 12: Synthesis Algorithms (notes)
• Topic 13: Physical Design Automation Algorithms (notes)

Tutorials

• Tutorial 1: Linux Development Environment
• Tutorial 2: Git Distributed Version Control System (github)
• Tutorial 3: PyMTL Hardware Modeling Framework (github)
• Tutorial 4: Verilog Hardware Description Language (github)
• Tutorial 5: Synopsys ASIC Tools (github)
• Tutorial 7: PyMTL Cycle-Level Modeling (github)
• Tutorial 8: SRAM Generators (github)
• Tutorial 9: TinyRV2 Accelerators (github)

Discussion Section Handouts

• Section 1: ASIC Tool Front-End (github)
• Section 2: ASIC Tool Back-End (github)
• Section 3: PyMTL Cycle-Level Modeling (github)
• Section 3: Lab 1 Walk-Through
• Section 4: TinyRV2 Accelerators (github)
• Section 6: Problem-Based Learning on Digital CMOS Circuits
• Section 7: Discussion of Results from Lab 2
• Section 7: On-Chip Networks Review

Lab Handouts

• Lab 1: Pipelined Integer Multiplier
• Lab 2: Sorting Accelerator