Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits                                                        

Assignments

 

Two kinds of homeworks will be assigned in this course along with a course term project. The homeworks will be delivered on paper in the class and the computer assignments are presented as a report.

 

Homeworks

 

Homework #1 (Review)

Homework #2

 

Computer Assignments

 

Computer Assignment #1

Computer Assignment #2

 

Suggested ISSCC'10 Papers for presentation

 

1) Low-skew clock distribution using zero-phase-clock-buffer DLLs
Ting Wu ; Aryanfar, F. ; Hae-Chang Lee ; Jie Shen ; Chin, T.J. ; Werner, C. ; Chang, K. ;
Rambus, Los Altos, CA, USA

 

2) A 45nm SOI-CMOS dual-PLL processor clock system for multi-protocol I/O

Fischette, D.M. ; Loke, A.L.S. ; Oshima, M.M. ; Doyle, B.A. ; Bakalski, R. ; DeSantis, R.J. ; Thiruvengadam, A. ; Wang, C.L. ; Talbot, G.R. ; Fang, E.S. ;
AMD, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

 

3) F1: Silicon 3D-integration technology and systems.5433859 searchabstract .Urard, Pascal ; Takeuchi, Ken ; Bernstein, Kerry ; Hidaka, Hideto ; Phan, Michael ; Choi, Joo Sun ; Payne, Bob ; Stojanovic, Vladimir ; Berkel, Kees Van ; Sakurai, Takayasu ;
STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France

4) Accurate characterization of random process variations using a robust low-voltage high-sensitivity sensor featuring replica-bias circuit.5433991 searchabstract .Meterelliyoz, M. ; Goel, A. ; Kulkarni, J.P. ; Roy, K. ;
Intel, Hillsboro, OR, USA

5) A 45nm resilient and adaptive microprocessor core for dynamic variation tolerance.5433922 searchabstract .Tschanz, J. ; Bowman, K. ; Shih-Lien Lu ; Aseron, P. ; Khellah, M. ; Raychowdhury, A. ; Geuskens, B. ; Tokunaga, C. ; Wilkerson, C. ; Karnik, T. ; De, V. ;
Intel, Hillsboro, OR, USA
 

6) A 320mV-to-1.2V on-die fine-grained reconfigurable fabric for DSP/media accelerators in 32nm CMOS.5433903 searchabstract .Agarwal, A. ; Mathew, S.K. ; Hsu, S.K. ; Anders, M.A. ; Kaul, H. ; Sheikh, F. ; Ramanarayanan, R. ; Srinivasan, S. ; Krishnamurthy, R. ; Borkar, S. ;
Intel, Hillsboro, OR, USA

7) A bitline sense amplifier for offset compensation.5433892 searchabstract .Myoung Jin Lee ; Ki Myung Kyung ; Hyung Sik Won ; Myoung Su Lee ; Kun Woo Park ;
Hynix Semicond., Icheon, South Korea

 

8) Within-die variation-aware dynamic-voltage-frequency scaling core mapping and thread hopping for an 80-core processor.5433997 searchabstract .Dighe, S. ; Vangal, S. ; Aseron, P. ; Kumar, S. ; Jacob, T. ; Bowman, K. ; Howard, J. ; Tschanz, J. ; Erraguntla, V. ; Borkar, N. ; De, V. ; Borkar, S. ;
Intel, Hillsboro, OR, USA