This course introduces basics and fundamentals of digital integrated circuits and particularly CMOS circuits. Course objectives include:

• Introducing Fabrication and Layout of MOS Devices
• Study CMOS Inverters: Static and Dynamic Characteristics
• Design CMOS Combinational Circuits and Sequential Circuits
• Design and analyze memory and array circuits
• Learn Hardware Description Languages to design digital ICs.
• Use layout, modeling, and simulation CAD tools to design and analyze digital ICs.

Teaching Load (Fall 2015):

• Lectures (2 hours), Tutorials (1 hour), Lab (2 hours)
• Office Hours: Saturday from 11:30AM to 2:00PM.
• Teaching Assistant: Eng. AbdulRahman AlTaweelah

Course work and assesment (out of 100) are as follows:

• Attendance: 10 marks
• 5 Labs: Use L-edit and Spice to layout, model, and simulate different digital ICs taught in the course:

  • Lab work: 10 marks

• Project: 10 marks

  • Read this file [PDF] for the project details.
  • Teams are allowed (the maximum number of team members is two)
  • Project submission: you are requirred to submit a technical report summarizing your work and the project design files compressed in a zipped file.
  • The project is graded out of 10 and the submission deadline is 20/5/2015 and you should submit the project files to the course TA by the deadline.