THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS at DALLAS 

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Electrical Engineering

 

EE7V82: Energy-Efficient VLSI Design

Prof. Vojin G. Oklobdzija

Office: ECSN 4.914

Office Hours: Fr 1:30-2:30 and by appointment via e-mail: vojin@utdallas.edu

Lectures: Friday 9:30-12:30pm,  Classroom: 2.120

 

Announcements:

April 16 - class will be working on optimization + synthesis tutorial in the EC 4.304 lab, 4th floor conducted by TA Baran and Dr. M. Aktan

Tool Setup and Tutorial for Synthesis and Sizing    Library file (to be used for Synopsys synthesis)

 

 

Course Syllabus

 

Proposed Project Topics (list supplied by TA)

 

 

Course Web Sites:

 

http://www.utdallas.edu/~vojin/classes/EE-7V82/

 

http://sites.google.com/site/utdallasclasses/low-powervlsidesign

 

Homeworks:

Homework-1    (Solution)  

 

Homework-2    (Solution)   (thanks to Don Pearce and Amjad Qadan - for professionally done work which we used as template)

 

Homework-3    (Solution)  (special thanks to Amjad Qadan) (an excellent solution, thanks to Don Pearce)

 

Homework-4   (Inv-Chain-LE; Inv-Chain-MinE)

Excel Characterization Template  (to help you start)

 

Homework-5   (explanation_slides)

Textbook

Set of selected papers and notes at:

http://www.utdallas.edu/~vojin/classes/EE-7V82/Lectures/

 

  • Anantha Chandrakasan, Robert Broderson, "Low-Power CMOS Design", IEEE Press, 1998.

  • Kaushik Roy, Sharat C. Prasad, "Low-Power CMOS VLSI Circuit Design", John Wiley and sons, 2000.

  • Christian Piguet, "Low-Power Electronics Design", CRC Press, 2005.

  • Gary K. Yeap, "Practical Low-Power Digital VLSI Design", Kluwer Publishing, 1998.

  • Jan Rabaey, "Low Power Design Essentials", Springer Science, 2009.

 

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