Instructor: Prof. Reid Harrison
Phone: 587-7926
Email: harrison [at] ece.utah.edu
Office: MEB 3114
Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30 am - 12:00 noon, Thursday 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Teaching Assistant:

• Grant Anderson
  E-mail: g.s.anderson [at] utah.edu
  Office: CADE lab
  Office hours: Monday 2:00 - 3:00 pm; Wednesday 2:00 - 4:00 pm; Thursday 10:30 - 11:30 am

Online MATLAB Tutorials

• University of Florida MATLAB Help Page
• University of Maryland Chemical Engineering MATLAB tutorial - This page has links to MANY other online tutorials.
• Utah Math Department MATLAB tutorial

Class Notes

• Introduction to MOSFET Operation (Available at the Copy Center in the Union Building)
• Layout cross-sections (Word format)
• Phase margin handout
• MOSFET Operation in Weak and Moderate Inversion
• Paper list for journal article assignment 1

Assignments

• Week 1 Assignments - due Wednesday, Jan. 21
• Week 2 Assignments - due Wednesday, Jan. 28
• Week 3 Tutorials and Assignments - due Thursday, Feb. 5
  • Cadence Tutorial 1
  • Cadence Help File 1
  • Cadence Printing Help File
  • CAD Assignment 1
  • Note on lock files
• Week 4 Assignments - due Thursday, Feb. 19 (START EARLY!!!)
  • Book/MATLAB Assignment
    • MATLAB curve fitting exercise
    • pwl.dat
    • edata.dat
    • vgssweep.dat
    • vdssweep.dat
  • Layout Assignment 1
    • Layout tutorial
    • DRC rules for layout
    • Sample LVS output file
    • Resistor Layout Help File
    • Capacitor Layout Help File
• Week 5 Assignment - due Wednesday, Feb. 25
• Op-Amp Simulation Assignment 1 - due Wednedsay, Mar. 4
  • Process Parameters Handout
• Op-Amp Simulation Assignment 2 - due Wednesday, Mar. 25
• Layout Assignment 2 - due Wednesday, Apr. 1
  • Layout/Common-Centroid handout
• Journal Article Assignment 1 - 6720 students only - due Thursday, Apr. 16
• Op-Amp Design Project - due Tuesday, Apr. 14
• Journal Article Assignment 2 - 6720 students only - due Tuesday, Apr. 28
• Final Design Project
  • One-page project proposal due Thursday, Apr. 17
  • Final project report due Thursday, May 7
  • Pad tutorial for those fabricating chips
  • How to extract a GDS file and prepare your chip for MOSIS fabrication

Exam

• Midterm - in class, Thursday, March 12 - Closed book, closed notes, one 8.5 x 11 inch note sheet allowed.
• No Final Exam