CMOS Fabrication and its implications notes ppt

Introduction (1.1-1.3)

CMOS Fabrication and its implications (1.3, 3.1-3.5)

Elementary CMOS logic design and layout (1.4-1.5.5) See Chris Mack's page for a nice litho tutorial.

MOS Device Equations (2.1-2.3.1)

CMOS Logic: Quantiative Analysis (2.3.2-2.6, 4.2)

Logical Effort (4.3)

Interconnect (4.5-4.6)

Simulating Circuits (5 - we won't cover this material, but you may want to brush up on it)

Adders (10.1-10.2) Mathematical treatment of parallel prefix computation

Advanced static gate design (6.1-6.2.1)

Alternatives to static logic (6.2.2-6.2.5, 6.4-6.6)

Sequential Design (7.1-7.5)

Datapath (10.3-10.10)

SRAMs (11.1-11.2)

CAMs, ROMs, and PLAs (11.4-11.7)

MOS Devices in DSM (2.4)

Circuit Pitfalls (6.3)

Test (4.8, 9)

Low Power (6, with an emphasis on 6.5)

• Kevin Nowka's notes on low power design

Design for Skew (7.5-7.6, 12.5)

Packaging, Power Supplies, and I/O (12.2-12.4)

Scaling and Economics (4.9, and 8.5)

• Kevin Nowka's notes on variability: very up-to-date, with lots of hard data

Evolution of Intel processors