Miscellaneous Handouts

• Course Syllabus
• Next Steps after First Lecture
• Project Report Assessment Rubric
• Project Ideas
• Tiny RISC-V Instruction Set Specification

Lecture Handouts

• Course Overview (notes)
• Topic 1: Hardware Description Languages
• 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 (video)
• Topic 12: Synthesis Algorithms (notes)
• Topic 13: Physical Design Automation Algorithms (notes)

Section Handouts

• Section 1: ASIC Front-End Flow (github)
• Section 2: ASIC Back-End Flow (github)
• Section 3: ASIC Automated Flow (github)
• Section 4: TinyRV2 Accelerator RTL Design (github)
• Section 5: SRAM Generators (github)
• Section 6: Problem-Based Learning on Digital CMOS Circuits (solutions)

Lab Handouts

• Lab Assignment Logistics
• Lab 1: Pipelined Integer Multiplier (results)
• Lab 2: Sorting Accelerator

Tutorial Handouts

• Tutorial 0: ECE Linux Server Remote Access
• Tutorial 1: Linux Development Environment
• Tutorial 2: Git Distributed Version Control System (github)
• Tutorial 3: Verilog Hardware Description Language (github)
• Tutorial 4: PyMTL3 Hardware Modeling Framework (github)
• Tutorial 5: ASIC Standard Cells (github)
• Tutorial 6: ASIC Front-End Flow (github)
• Tutorial 7: ASIC Back-End Flow (github)
• Tutorial 8: ASIC Automated Flow (github)
• Tutorial 9: TinyRV2 Accelerator RTL Design (github)
• Tutorial 10: SRAM Generators (github)
• Tutorial 12: SPICE Simulation (github)
• Tutorial 13: DesignWare and Retiming (github)

Midterm Preparation

• Midterm Example Appendix
• Practice Problem 1 (solutions)