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VLSI IL2201 |
Practical Aspects |
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A copy of the main course book (Dally &
Poulton, Digital Systems Engineering) is necessary. Lecture notes can be found here on the course web site. Laboratory manuals and
hand-outs are also on the course web site. Design tool manuals are available
in electronic format or on paper. Each student needing access to PC-based
design tools in your own computer and if use a KTH computer, will get a user
account after signing the standard KTH contract. Additional article and
reading material will be posted on our web site or file servers. It will be
accessible either by password only or by IP-address (within KTH). |
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Each lab (4 different) and a design project will be
done in 2 person groups. All the labs need to be passed to pass the course. |
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We recommend students to solve selected problems from
the course books including either hand calculations or basic Spice
simulations as preparation for the final exam. Check from the web to get your
own Spice simulator, in case you have not done that. I recommend AIM-Spice
(see e.g. web site www.aimspice.com) or
OrCAD
from Cadence. Oral exam can be organized for those who need or want it.
Please contact the lecturer on this. Information of SPICE Simulator is available
here [1], [2] |
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We assign home readings for each lecture. I assume
that you have read BEFORE each lecture in order to get the maximum benefit
out from the lectures. The lecturing speed (words/s, OH/s) will be comparable
to normal industrial technical presentation/tutorial or course as given in |
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