Laboratory Assignments and Projects
Lab #1: Introduction to CAD tools for physical and logical design and simulation. Due: February 18th.
Complete the Cadence tutorial here. After you complete the tutorial, do the layout, schematic, LVS and SPICE simulation of a 9 inverter ring oscillator, i.e. a circuit that comprises of nine inverters connected to each other in a loop. Do the simulation at a power supply of 3.3 Volts, 2.5 Volts and 1.2. Volts. Probe the voltage at any point in the inverter chain/loop. Submit a printout of your circuit, layout and SPICE simulation result for the 3 voltage conditions as well as a discussion on what you observed and why in the results of the simulations at different voltages.
Collaboration: YES. You can work together in groups of two to do the tutorial and ring oscillator design but please write up the report on your own, i.e. results and discussion of results.
Mini-Project #1: The age of exponential scaling. Due: February 20th.
Here is a tutorial on how to find articles with IEEE Explore!
Collaboration: NO. This mini-project must be done individually.
Lab #2: Memory array cell design. Due: April 15th.
Collaboration: YES. You can work together in groups of two to do the work but please write up the report on your own, i.e. results and discussion of results.
Final Project: Neuromorphic Computing. Due: Prelab: April 22nd, Final Report: May 12th.
Collaboration:YES. You can work together in groups of two or three for the final projet design but please write up the report on your own, i.e. results and discussion of results.
The design of CMOS standard cell libraries is discussed in this paper by Djigbenou et. al. (pdf)