The Grainger College of Engineering

Online Course Catalog

ECE 425 - Intro to VLSI System Design

Spring 2023

Course Description

Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology and theory; CMOS circuit and logic design; layout rules and techniques; circuit characterization and performance estimation; CMOS subsystem design; Very-Large-Scale Integrated (VLSI) systems design methods; VLSI Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools; workstation-based custom VLSI chip design using concepts of cell hierarchy; final project involving specification, design, and evaluation of a VLSI chip or VLSI CAD program; written report and oral presentation on the final project.

Credit Hours

3 hours

Prerequisites

ECE 385 and ECE 411; or CS 233.

Subject Area

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering