Imperial College London

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
M.Eng. Fourth Year Course
MSc in Analouge & Digital IC Design

Digital IC Design (Autumn 2010)

Prof Peter Y. K. Cheung


Aim

The aim of this course is to introduce the basics of digital integrated circuits design.

Learning Outcomes/Objectives

After following this course you will be able to:

Description and Assessment

The course covers the whole range of basic issues related to digital integrated circuit design and development. A significant part of the course is taken up by a group design project in which students design an integrated circuit. The written examination in May/June (open book) contributes 75% to the overall mark while the project contributes 25%.

Teaching Assistant

MSc: Dr Sumanta Chaudhuri <s.chaudhuri@imperial.ac.uk> or
          Zhenyu Guan <zhenyu.guan08@imperial.ac.uk>
MEng: Josh Lavine <josh.levine05@imperial.ac.uk>

Syllabus

Textbooks

Here are layout plots of chips designed by students who did this course in previous years. Check it out!


Lecture Schedule and Notes (Autumn 2009)
Week
Lectures
Laboratory/Project
Extras
2
None
3
4
5
6
 
7
Design Project
 
8
Design Project
 
9
Design Project
10
Design Project
 

CAD Tools

The CAD Tools described below are all free and will run under Windows-XP. You will find that all these packages are installed in the Departmental computers. However, I would encourage you to install them on your notebook.

Layout

You will be using an excellent software package known as Electric for front-end entry of schematic and layout design. You can download Electric and install it for MS Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Since Electric Version 8.11 is written in Java, you also need to have Java Run-time Environment installed.

Circuit Simulation

You should use the excellent WinSpice for Windows. (Note that you should download this program and rename it WinSpice1.06.00.exe. This is an evaluation copy and will work with your circuit.)

Switch-level Simulation

You should use Irsim for switch and RC-level simulation. This is now part of the Electric System.

Other useful information

Design rules (based on MOSIS Scalable CMOS Design Rules) (click here for pdf file) s

SPICE device model can be found here.

IRSIM Most Frequently Used commands and User Manual (pdf format)


This page is maintained by Peter Cheung
Last updated: 9 Dec 2010