Course

EE-330: Digital IC design

Summary

Digital IC Design presents the fundamentals of digital integrated circuit design. The methods and techniques aiming at the fabrication and development of digital integrated circuits are reviewed, the major design style pertaining to digital logic and memory are presented.

Lectures

Instructor

Alexandre Schmid

Alexandre Schmid received the M.Sc. degree in microengineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1994 and 2000, respectively. Since 1994, he has been with the EPFL, working with the Integrated Systems Laboratory as a Research and Teaching Assistant, and with the Electronics Laboratories as a Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2002, he was a Senior Research Associate with the Microelectronic Systems Laboratory, where he has been conducting research in the fields of bioelectronic interfaces and implantable biomedical electronics, nonconventional signal processing and neuromorphic hardware, and reliability of nanoelectronic devices, and also teaches with the Microengineering and Electrical Engineering Departments of EPFL. Since 2011, he is a Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche (MER) Faculty Member with EPFL. He is a coauthor of two books, Reliability of Nanoscale Circuits and Systems, Methodologies and Circuit Architectures, Springer, 2011, and Wireless Cortical Implantable Systems, Springer, 2013, and a coeditor of one book, as well as over 100 articles published in journals and conferences. Dr. Schmid has served as the General Chair of the Fourth International Conference on Nano-Networks in 2009 and has been serving as an Associate Editor of the Institute of Electrical, Information, and Communication Engineers Electronics Express since 2009.

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Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Alexandre Schmid

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/EE-330

Lectures in this course (17)

Digital Integrated Circuits: Evolution and Design

Covers the evolution of digital integrated circuits, market demands impact, modern IC functionalities, microprocessors history, and Moore's law.

VLSI Basics: Design and Technology

Covers VLSI design basics, including scaling, technology, MOSFET operation, and logic circuit implementation.

Logic Design: Basic Rules and Shannon's Expansion

Covers basic rules of logic design and Shannon's expansion in Boolean functions.

CMOS Inverter Fabrication

Explores the fabrication process of a CMOS inverter, covering thermal oxidation, doping processes, diffusion, ion implantation, and pattern transfer.

Thin-Film Processing: Removal and Deposition

Explores thin-film removal and deposition techniques in CMOS technology, covering wet etching, dry etching, chemical mechanical polishing, and thin-film deposition methods.

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