Instructor: Nader Sehatbakhsh, Assistant Professor, UCLA
TAs: GURU SUBRAMANIAN ANNAMALAI (gurusubramanian [at] g [dot] ucla [dot] edu)
Lectures: Haines Hall 220, T-Th 4-5:50 PM
Office Hours: Thursdays 3-4 PM (in-person) or by appointment* (Zoom or in-person)
Textbook: Jan, M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, and Borivoje Nikolić, Digital Integrated Circuits - A Design Perspective (2nd Edition)
Links: We will use Bruinlearn (Canvas), Campuswire, and Gradescope in this course. Please use the links posted in Bruinlearn to enroll.
* To schedule an appointment, send a direct message on Campuswire.
This course introduces the principles and practice of digital integrated circuit design using CMOS technology. Topics include MOS transistor operation, CMOS logic gates, combinational and sequential circuit design, timing analysis, power and energy dissipation, interconnect effects, and technology scaling. Emphasis is placed on understanding performance, power, and robustness tradeoffs through analytical models and circuit-level simulation, with connections to modern digital systems and processors.