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Core Course Contents: Detailed description of core contents covered in EE 477L
Course Objective: Learn fundamental techniques for the design of VLSI circuits, be able to design simple cells, and be able to configure chips containing the simple cells.
Course Outline: Analysis and design of digital MOS VLSI circuits including area, delay and power minimization. Laboratory assignments including design, layout, extraction, simulation and automatic synthesis. Prerequisite: EE 327 or EE 338.