Cornell University
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
ECE 6745 Complex Digital ASIC Design
Spring 2026
Prof. Christopher Batten
219 Phillips Hall • Tuesday and Thursday • 1:25–2:40pm
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Course Overview
- N. Weste and D. Harris. Chapter 1. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2011. [ pdf ]
Topic 1: Basic CMOS Devices
- N. Weste and D. Harris. Chapter 1.4–1.5, 2.1, 3.1, 3.3, 3.8. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2011.
Topic 2: Basic Standard Cells
- N. Weste and D. Harris. Chapters 4.1–4.3, 8, 9.1–9.2.1, 14.3.4, 14.3.5, 14.7.1–14.7.2. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2011.
Topic 3: Basic ASIC Front-End Flow
- N. Weste and D. Harris. Chapters 14.4.1. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2011.
- S. Devadas, A. Ghosh, and K. Keutzer. Chapters 7.8. Logic Synthesis, McGraw-Hill Professional 1994. [ pdf | link ]
Topic 4: Basic ASIC Back-End Flow
- N. Weste and D. Harris. Chapters 14.4.1. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2011.
Topic 5: Advanced CMOS Devices
- N. Weste and D. Harris. Chapter 3, 6. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2011.
- S. Kundojjala, G. Wong, D. Patel, and J. Koch. Apple-TSMC: The Partnership Taht Build Modern Semiconductors. SemiAnalsys, 2026. [ pdf ]
Topic 6: Advanced Standard Cells
- N. Weste and D. Harris. Chapters 4–5, 10.1–10.2. CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective, 4th ed., Addison Wesley, 2011.