Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Integrated
Circuit Design and Fabrication
ECE
124C – Spring 2011
Instructor: Dr. Ilan
Ben-Yaacov
Schedule:
Tues/Thurs 9:30 - 10:45am, PHELPS 1448
Announcements
5/23/11: Homework 2-4 solutions are now
posted. HW 5 solutions will be available
after 5pm on 5/24.
5/12/11:
Homework 5 is available on the class website.
5/2/11:
Homework 4 is available on the class website.
4/14/11:
Homework 3 is available on the class website.
4/4/11:
Homework 2 is available on the class website – DUE
DATE CHANGED TO 4/14/11!
3/29/11:
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
3221D, ext 5295, ilan[at]engineering.ucsb.edu
Office Hours: Wed
11:00am-1:00pm or by appointment, ESB Room 3221D
Teaching Assistant: The
TA for this course is Samuel Beach (beach[at]umail.ucsb.edu),
office/lab hours TBA.
Lab Supervisor: Bob
Hill, Engineering II Room 1141, ext 4142, bob[at]ece.ucsb.edu
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, and laboratory project/presentation will each contribute 15%, 30%, and
55%, respectively, to the final grade. The laboratory will include a final
report and a presentation to the class.
Homework Assignments – turn into box on 3rd floor
of HFH
Homework 1 – due 4/5/11 by 5:00pm (there is nothing to turn in
for this assignment)
Homework 2 – due 4/13/11 4/14/11 by 5:00pm
Homework 3 – due 4/28/11 by 5:00pm
Homework 4 – due 5/12/11 by 5:00pm
Homework 5 – due 5/24/11 by 5:00pm
Homework Solutions (requires
password)
Midterm
Midterm will be on Thursday, 5/26/11. You will be
allowed a calculator and 3 pages of notes (8.5 by 11 inch, you may write on
front and back). BRING A BLUE BOOK
TO RECORD YOUR ANSWERS! Midterm
review will be in class on Tuesday 5/24/11.
Handouts
L-Edit
tutorial - note: L-Edit has been installed on all of the PCs in the
ECI 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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