Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Integrated
Circuit Design and Fabrication
ECE
124C – Spring 2009
Instructor: Dr. Ilan Ben-Yaacov
Schedule:
Tues/Thurs 9:30 - 10:45am, PHELPS 1448
Announcements
5/26/09: Homework solutions are now posted.
5/26/09: Midterm is on Thursday of this week. Please bring the following with you:
Blue book
Calculator
Pen/pencil/eraser
3 pages of notes (8.5x11inch, write on
front and back)
5/17/09: Homework
5 has been posted on the class website.
4/30/09: Homework
4 has been posted on the class website.
4/16/09: Homework
3 has been posted on the class website.
4/5/09: Homework
2 has been posted on the class website.
3/30/09:
Welcome to ECE 124C. Homework 1 along with various other
handouts are available on the class website.
Syllabus
(click here for syllabus in .pdf format)
Time: Tues/Thurs
9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Place: PHELPS
1448
Instructor: Dr.
Ilan Ben-Yaacov, ESB Room 2213, ext 5295
Office Hours: Tues
11am-noon or by appointment, ESB Room 2213
Teaching Assistant: The
TA for this course is Samuel Beach, office/lab hours TBA.
Lab Supervisor: Bob
Hill, HFH Room 4110, ext 4142
Required Text: Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits, 3rd edition,
by Richard S. Muller and Theodore I. Kamins, 2002, ISBN 0-471-59398-2. Handouts and class notes will complement the
text.
Prerequisites: ECE
132, ECE 137A, and ECE 124B or equivalent, or consent of the instructor.
Topics to be covered:
MOS transistors
p-n junctions and heterojunctions
Bipolar transistors / HBT’s
JFETs, HFETs
VLSI technologies
Advanced processing techniques
Course Description: There will be homework assignments, a midterm, a presentation
and laboratory work. Laboratory work will consist of designing, fabricating and
testing of something interesting such as a simple MOS circuit. You will design
the entire process sequence, simulate the expected device characteristics and
circuit performance, and compare it with your experimental results. Homework,
midterm, presentation, and laboratory will each contribute 15%, 30%, 15% and
40% to the final grade. The laboratory will consist of a final report and a
presentation to the class.
Homework 1 – due 4/7/09 by 5:00pm (there is nothing to turn in
for this assignment)
Homework 2 – due 4/15/09 by 5:00pm
Homework 3 – due 4/29/09 by 5:00pm
Homework 4 – due 5/13/09 by 5:00pm
Homework 5 – due 5/26/09 by 5:00pm
L-Edit
tutorial - note: L-Edit has been installed on the following machines
in the ECI lab: ECIPC015, ECIPC014, ECIPC050, ECIPC071. These
machines are located in the back corner of the lab.
L-Edit Template File (will be emailed to everyone in the class)
Tasker
/ Hughes paper on effects of source and drain resistance on RF performance
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