Teaching

Beyond Classical Circuit Design, Summer 2015

Matthias Függer and Attila Kinali

Time:

Lecture: Tuesday, 14:15 to 16:00 (Building E1.4, room 023)

Tutorial: Monday, 16:15 to 18:00 (Building E1.5, room 630)

First meeting:

First Tuesday of the Summer 2015 term, i.e., 21st April.

Room:

023 on the ground floor of the MPI building (E1.4)

Mailinglist:

Please subscribe to the lecture mailinglist here

Prerequisites:

The course requires no prerequisites besides basic math.

Content:

Purpose of the course is to give an overview on techniques in circuit design that can be used when the classical circuit design approach fails: be it due to speed or power limitations, or its use in mission critical designs. We will do this by covering asynchronous/clockless and fault-tolerant circuits.

The course will start with a short summary of classical chip design to set the base for the remaining lectures.

Credits:

There will be weekly homeworks for which you can credit points (50% in total) and a final test (remaining 50% of the points).

The final mark is determined from your points by:

<60%:	5
<70%:	4
<80%:	3
<90%:	2
>90%:	1

News for students:

Schedule:

Date	Topic	References
Apr 21	Introduction	Slides, Exercise 1
Apr 28	Circuit Models I	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-06-30), Exercise 2
May 5	Circuit Models II	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-05-21), Exercise 3
May 12	Circuit Models III. Different room: E1.7 room 001	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-06-30), Exercise 4
May 19	No lecture
May 26	Synthesis I	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-05-26),
June 2	Synthesis II & Gate Internals	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-06-02), Exercise 5
June 9	Gate Internals II	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-06-16)
June 16	CMOS Synthesis	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-06-16), Exercise 6
June 23	Alternative Design Styles	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-06-30), Exercise 7
June 30	Clocked Design and Pipelining	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-06-30), Exercise 8
July 7	No lecture
July 14	Dynamic Timing Analysis	Slides (updated 2015-06-30),
July 21	Metastability	Slides, Slides with notes (updated 2015-07-21),

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