Syllabus Application
Special Topics in EE: VLSI Systems Design I
EE 58003
Faculty:
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Semester:
Fall 2025-2026
Course:
Special Topics in EE: VLSI Systems Design I - EE 58003
Classroom:
FENS-L065
Level of course:
Masters
Course Credits:
SU Credit:3.000, ECTS:10
Prerequisites:
-
Corequisites:
-
Course Type:
Lecture
Instructor(s) Information
Ömer Ceylan
- Email: ceylanomer@sabanciuniv.edu
Course Information
Catalog Course Description
Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology and limitations; CMOS circuit and logic design; layout rules and techniques; circuit characterization and performance estimation; CMOS subsystem design, basic building blocks; structured design principles; Very-Large-Scale Integrated (VLSI) system design methods; DRC, logic and circuit simulation.
Course Learning Outcomes:
| 1. | Describe digital VLSI circuit design styles; |
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| 2. | Analyze and reduce delay of full custom digital VLSI circuits; |
| 3. | Design and analyze full custom arithmetic circuits (e.g. adder, multiplier); |
| 4. | Describe basic techniques for reducing power consumption of digital VLSI circuits; |
| 5. | Describe clock generation and distribution in synchronous digital VLSI circuits; |
| 6. | Describe standard cell libraries; |
| 7. | Design and implement standard cell based digital VLSI circuits using logic synthesis and physical synthesis tools; |
| 8. | Verify functionality and timing of standard cell based digital VLSI circuits using a logic simulation tool. |
| 9. | Overview of Analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters |
Course Objective
This course teaches both full custom and standard cell based digital CMOS VLSI circuit design, implementation and analysis. Students gain practical experience by designing, implementing and verifying full custom and standard cell based digital CMOS VLSI circuits.
Course Materials
Resources:
CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (4th Edition), Neil Weste and David Harris, Addison-Wesley
Digital Interated Circuits – A Design Perspective (2nd Edition), Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikolic, Prentice-Hall
Digital Interated Circuits – A Design Perspective (2nd Edition), Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikolic, Prentice-Hall