ECE 556
Computer Aided Analysis & Optimization of Integrated Circuit
Fall 2005

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INSTRUCTOR: Charlie Chung-Ping Chen

CLASS MEETING: Tuesday,1:00 PM. ¡V 2:10 PM.

TEACHING ASSISTANT: TBD

OFFICE HOUR: AFTER CLASS

GRADING: (1) Project 50% (2) Homework 20% (3) Midterm 30%

TOPICS:

Lecture 1 - Introduction
Lecture 2 - Formulation of Circuit Equations
Lecture 3 - Direct Methods for Linear Systems
Lecture 4 - Direct Methods for Sparse Linear Systems
Lecture 5 - Iterative Methods and QR Factorization
Lecture 6 - Krylov-Subspace Methods - I
Lecture 7 - Krylov-Subspace Methods - II
Lecture 8 - Solutions for Nonlinear Equations
Lecture 9 - Modified Newton Methods
Lecture 10 - Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations
Lecture 11 - Multistep Methods
Lecture 12 - Large Timestep Issues
Lecture 13 - Digital Systems Verification
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LECTURE NOTES

unit1.pdf - Introduction
unit1A.pdf - Computational Complexity
unit2.pdf - High-Level Synthesis
unit3.pdf - Logic Synthesis
unit4.pdf - Formal Verification
unit5A.pdf - Circuit Partitioning
unit5B.pdf - Floorplanning
unit5C.pdf - Placement
unit5D.pdf - Maze (Area) and Global Routing
unit5E.pdf - Channel, Clock, and Power/Ground Routing
unit5F.pdf - Layout Compaction
unit5G.pdf - Layout Editor
unit6.pdf - Testing
unit7.pdf - Simulation

TEXT BOOK: Computer Methods for Circuit Analysis and Design by Jiri Vlach, Kishore Singhal