EE194 Advanced VLSI, Spring 2018

Advanced VLSI Spring 2018 Class Schedule & Assignments


Lecture #	Day/Date	Lecture Topic	Homework	Homework Due Dates	Quiz
1	Mon Jan 22	Intro
2	Wed Jan 24	Process scaling
3	Mon Jan 29	ditto	HW1 (Process scaling)
4	Wed Jan 31	Static-timing
5	Mon Feb 5	ditto
6	Wed Feb 7	ditto
7	Mon Feb 12	ditto		HW1 due
8	Wed Feb 14	ditto	HW2 (Static timing)
*	Mon Feb 19	(Pres Day)
9	Wed Feb 21	Clocking
10	Thu Feb 22	ditto	HW3 (Binning)	HW2 due
11	Mon Feb 26	ditto
12	Wed Feb 28	ditto
13	Mon Mar 5	ditto
14	Wed Mar 7	ditto	HW4 (Clocking)	HW3 due
15	Mon Mar 12	Verification
16	Wed Mar 14	ditto
*	Mon Mar 19	(spring br)
*	Wed Mar 21	(spring br)
17	Mon Mar 26	ditto
18	Wed Mar 28	DVFS		HW4 due
19	Mon Apr 2	DVFS
20	Wed Apr 4	DVFS
21	Mon Apr 9	Class canceled	HW5 (DVFS)
22	Wed Apr 11	Tina Zou, floor planning
23	Fri Apr 13	Jim Ellis, verification
*	Mon Apr 16	(Patriot's Day)
24	Wed Apr 18	Verification paper discussion
25	Mon Apr 23	Verification papers; dark silicon
26	Wed Apr 25	dark silicon		HW5 due
27	Mon Apr 30	Future tech