Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, The University of Arizona

                           ECE 570: Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) for Integrated Circuits

                                      Fall 2005, Tu. Th. 8:00AM-9:15AM, Harvill 415

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

                 » Basics

                     Session 1: Introduction, Computer Aided Engineering for Integrated Circuits- an Overview

                     Session 2: Elementary Equations, Formulation of Circuit Equations

                     Session 3: Automatic Formulation of Circuit Equations

                     Session 4: Device Modeling, Approximations, Implementation, and Example of Diode

                     Session 5: Overview of Numerical Problems, Computing with Diode Model

                 » Circuit Analysis (numerical methods)

                     Session 6: DC Analysis

                     Session 7: Computation of Transient, Transient Analysis - 1

                     Session 8: Errors in Computation of Transient, Transient Analysis - 2

                     Session 10_1: Solving Linear Algebraic Systems, Solution Techniques for Linear Algebraic Systems

                     Session 10_2: Solving Sparse Systems, Solution Techniques for Sparse Systems

                 » Signal Integrity

                     Session 11_1: Signal Integrity Issues

                     Session 11_2: Signal Integrity in Digital Systems

                     Session 12: Signal Distribution - Basics    

                 » Spectral Methods

                    Modeling and Simulation of Interconnect

                    Modeling and Simulation of Mixed-signal Circuits, Data Converters

                    Simulation of Oscillators and Clocking Circuits