Section 0101
Spring 2005
Instructor: Chintan Patel
Office: ITE 322
Office Hours: Mon & Wed, 11:00 - 12:30 AM or by appointment
Teaching Assistants: Abhishek Singh
Office Hours: TBA
Meeting Time and Location: Mon & Wed, ITE 375, 2:00 - 3:15 PM
All students are required to fill out the ABET survey below
Apr 18: Have your code ready, including test benches and waveform dumps for demo today. If your design is not complete, demo whatever you have done so far. Also keep the scripts ready so show primitive synthesis runs of your RTL code.
Apr 11: We will discuss the project today, no lecture. Abhishek will be available to answer Verilog related questions. Rest of the class to be used for group discussions.
Feb 28: If UMBC stays open and you are not able to make it to class due to the weather situation, you can submit your assignment on Wednesday without any late penalty
Feb 07: Lecture 1 slides and assignment 1 posted, deadline extented to Monday 2/14.
Spring 2005 Syllabus (html version)
Lecture 1: Standard Cell Design (html version)
Lecture 2: Abstract Generation (html version)
Lecture 3: Std Cell Library/ Library Exchange Format (LEF) (html version)
Lecture 4: Timing Library Format (TLF) (html version)
Assignment 1: Due Monday 2/14
Assignment 2: Due Monday 2/21
Assignment 3: Due Wednesday 2/28
Assignment 4: Due Monday 3/07
Unless otherwise stated all assignments from now on are group based: Project Groups
Assignment 5: Due before Spring Break (Friday 03/18)
Assignment 6 (This is an individual assignment): Due Monday 3/28
Class Project: Last day of class
Files for the abstract generator
- Technology Library (AMI06_abstract.tar.gz)
- Layer Map file (ami06_StreamLayerMap.txt)
- Abstract Options (.abstract.options)
UMBC AMI 0.6um library layouts/abstracts