CEG3470 Digital Circuits

Lecture Notes

• Week 1 (3/9/07) - Introduction (intro and chap1)
• Week 2 (10/9/07) - Manufacturing (ppt)
• Week 3 (17/9/07) - Devices (ppt)
• Week 4 (24/9/07) - Wire (ppt)
• Week 5-7 (31/9/07-15/10/07) - The Inverter (ppt). Note that adiabatic charging is not covered in this course.
• Week 8-10 (22/10/07-6/11/07) - Combinational Logic (ppt).
• Week 11-12 (12/11/07-19/11/07) - Sequential Circuits (ppt).
• Week 13 (26/11/07) - Revision

Midterm

• The midterm exam will be on the 29th (M7 period) and 30th Oct. Here is a sample midterm (pdf).
• The exam will cover Ch 1-5 of the textbook with the exception of: Ch 2 (manufacturing); Section 3.2 (diodes); Section 4.4.5 to end of chapter 4 (transmission line theory).

Final

• Here is a sample final exam (2004) (pdf).
• The final exam will cover Ch 1-7 of the textbook with the exception of:
  • Section 1.3.1 (IC cost)
  • Ch 2 (manufacturing)
  • Section 3.2 (diodes)
  • pg 107, for channel capacitance only a qualitative understanding is required
  • last paragraph of pg 139 to end of section 4.3.1 (fringing capacitance)
  • Equations 4.17-4.19.
  • pg 146 to end of section 4.3.3 (details about wire resistance and inductance)
  • Section 4.4.5 to end of chapter 4 (transmission line theory)
  • Section 5.4.1 (inverter capacitance)
  • Section 5.6 (impact of scaling on inverters)
  • pg 257-268 (switching activity effect on power consumption and ratioed logic)
  • pg 300 to end of ch 6 (optimization of domino logic and other logic styles)
  • Section 7.3.2 to end of ch 7

Tutorials

• Tutorials will be held during period W6 (Wed 1:30pm) in MMW704
• Refer to the tutorial WWW page
• Try this PN junction demonstration (applet)

Other Links

• Slides from book (link)
• Website for another excellent textbook, CMOS VLSI Design A Circuits and Systems Perspective by Weste and Harris (link).