Welcome to the VLSI Design I class at Rice University - Fall 2000


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Electrical and Computer Engineering 422 at Rice University is designed to impart to the students the theory and application of VLSI design. The course includes a design project, where students design original circuits based on the material learned in class. The chips will be fabricated by MOSIS , and tested in the next class in this series, Elec 423 (VLSI II).



Second Annual AMD/Rice University VLSI Design Contest Announcement

AMD Contest Presentations and Winners - Fall 2000!!


Fall 2000 - Project Groups


Fall 2000 - Administrative

Fall 2000 Handouts - Design Tools and Examples


Fall 2000 - Homework Assignments


MOSIS Run Status

The fall 2000 projects are to fabricated using the AMI 1.5 micron CMOS process through MOSIS generously supported by the Semiconductor Industry Association. The class projects are to be included in the December 2000 MOSIS run.


Course Topics

The topics covered in this course include:

Sections of Course Manual - Not Complete


CAD Tool Man pages


User contributed notes


Previous Years

About the VLSI Design class in Fall 1999 (last year), and Fall 1998, and Fall 1997, and Fall 1996, and Fall 1995
Joe Cavallaro
Last modified: 19 December 2000