Miscellaneous Handouts

• Course Syllabus
• Next Steps after First Lecture
• Energy Efficiency vs. Performance Plotter

Lecture Handouts

• Course Overview (notes)
• T01: Basic CMOS Devices
• T02: Basic Standard Cells
• T03: Basic Front-End Flow
• T04: Basic Back-End Flow
• T05: Advanced CMOS Devices
• T06: Advanced Standard Cells
• T07: Advanced Memories
• T08: Advanced Front-End Flow
• T09: Advanced Back-End Flow

Lab Handouts

• Lab 1: Full-Custom Inverter (github)
• Lab 2: Standard-Cell Inverter (github)
• Lab 3: TinyFlow Front End (github)
• Lab 4: TinyFlow Back End (github)
• Lab 5: TinyRV2 Accelerators (github)
• Lab 6: Commercial Front-End Flow (github)
• Lab 7: Commercial Back-End Flow (github)
• Lab 8: Commercial Block Flow (github)
• Lab 9: Commercial Chip Flow (github)

Project Handouts

• Project 1: TinyFlow Tape-Out
  • TinyFlow 180nm Design Rule Manual
  • Part A: TinyFlow Standard Cells
  • Part B: TinyFlow Front End
  • Part C: TinyFlow Back End
• Project 2: Accelerator Tape-Out
  • Tiny RISC-V Instruction Set Specification
  • Part A: Software & Testing
  • Part B: Accelerator RTL Milestone
  • Part C: Accelerator RTL Design
  • Part D: ASIC Evaluation
  • Part E: Tape-Out and Report
• Project 3: System-on-Chip Tape-In
  • Project Ideas
  • Project Report Assessment Rubric

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)

ECE 6950 Digital ASIC Chip Testing Handouts

• Lab 1: FPGA Emulation