EECE 7353 — VLSI Design

4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: T/FBostonOakland, CAOnlineSeattle, WALive CastTraditionalVideo Streaming

Covers all aspects of VLSI design and engineering including VLSI design methodology; MOS transistors and circuits; CAD tools to create, extract, simulate, and evaluate physical layouts; CMOS fabrication process; evaluation and optimization of circuit area, power consumption, and propagation delay; CAD tools to design CMOS systems with standard cells; system clocking design and evaluation; the characteristics and limitations of CAD tools, such as simulation, placement, and routing; VLSI testing, fault models, test vector generation, and design for testability; design projects going through a complete VLSI design cycle; and a research project targeting a specific area of VLSI engineering. Requires a knowledge of electronics and digital systems design.

Offering history

TermSectionsEnrolledCapacityFullOpen seats/section
Spring 202423914926%55.0
Fall 2024152619%21.0
Spring 202522814919%60.5
Fall 2025121613%14.0
Spring 20262376062%11.5

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 2% · T 95% · W 0% · Th 5% · F 91%

Common patterns: TF (91% of sections), TR (5% of sections), async (3% of sections), M (2% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

Spring

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Links

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