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).