Courses and Research
Undergraduate courses:
Graduate courses:
Research:
Cadence products are currently being used in the following research areas:
CMOS Sensor design, Microelectromechanical Systems, Analog VLSI, low-power
digital arithmetic circuits.
Undergraduate
ELEC 441: Analog Filter Design
- Fourth year course dealing with design of active RC filters using operational
amplifiers.
- Butterworth, Tchebyscheff, and Bessel filters.
- Simulation of filter designs using Cadence's Custom IC Analog Artist simulation
environment.
COEN 451: VLSI Design I
- Hierarchical approach to digital design of VLSI circuits.
- Simple CMOS process, design rules, and layout exercises.
- CAD facilities for layout of CMOS VLSI circuits.
- Layout design project using Cadence's Custom IC Design Framework II including
Virtuoso Layout Editor.
Graduate
COEN 6511: VLSI Circuit
Design
- Realization of IC logic elements including CMOS inverters, AND gates,
NAND gates, etc.
- Layout considerations.
- IC fabrication.
- CAD tools for VLSI layout.
- Layout project using Cadence's Custom IC Design Framework II including the Virtuoso
Layout editor.
ELEC 6051: Introduction to Analog VLSI
- Challenges of IC techniques and VLSI.
- Passive components, network models, layout design rules and CAD packages.
- Switch, active resistor, current mirror and voltage references, differential
amplifiers, comparators, voltage to current transducers.
- VLSI project using Cadence's Custom IC Design Framework II.
ELEC 6071: Analog VLSI techniques for Signal Processing
- Review of analog IC building blocks.
- Low power, low voltage signal processing.
- Use of Cadence's Custom IC Design Framework II.
ELEC 6081: Modern Analog Filter Design
- Active filters
- Realization of components in integrated circuit filters
- Switched capacitor filters
- Use of Cadence's Custom IC Design Framework II.
Research