CONTENTS

This course offers a more advanced treatment of digital design in the context of microprocessors. With a special emphasis on:

• Design methodology and practice
• Pipeline microprocessor architecture implementation and evaluation

Course presentation [pdf]

1. Moore’s Law & Dennard Scaling

   a.Transistor: basic physics

2. Manufacturing (high volume)

   a.Lithography, Etching

   b.Test & Assembly

   c.Packaging, 3D Stacking, Interposer & Boards

   d.DFT (Design For Testing)

3. Memory, processor-on-memory

   a.DRAM & DIMMs, NVRAM

4. ASIC vs FPGA

5. Design Cycle 

   a.RTL Coding 

   b.Verification 

   c.Synthesis 

   d.Placement & Routing. Infrastructure setup and test. 

Effective Oral and Written Technical Communication [pdf][pdf1]

Previous editions syllabus [link]

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Mike Johnson, Superscalar Microprocessor Design, Prentice Hall ISBN:0138756341

• Principles of CMOS VLSI Design: A Systems Perspective with Verilog/VHDL Manual (2nd Edition), Neil H. E. Weste, Kamran Eshraghian, Michael John Sebastian Smith, Addison Wesley (2000)

• Fundamentals of Digital Logic with VHDL Design (Third Edition), Stephen Brown and Zvonko Vranesic