EECS 130 Integrated Circuit Devices - Tsu-Jae King - Spring 2003
UCB Extension EDP #843466 - Introduction to Linear Integrated Circuits
4 units: $3460

Integrated-circuit technology represents one of the outstanding achievements of modern engineering. An understanding of the physics of device operation in integrated circuits provides a perspective for innovation and design that can be very valuable to engineers. This course provides an overview of basic semiconductor physical mechanisms and discusses the electronics of metal-semiconductor contacts, pn junctions, bipolar transistors, and of junction and MOS field-effect transistors. It focuses on discussion of the material and device properties that are significant for integrated circuits.
NTU number: N/A

EECS 140 - Linear Circuit Design - Robert Brodersen - Fall 2004
UCB Extension EDP #843359- Introduction to Linear Integrated Circuits
4 units: $3460

This course covers the fundamentals of the analysis and design of analog integrated circuits and is geared towards those with limited backgrounds in analog ICs. The course provides a thorough introduction to this material. It begins by reviewing transistor device models, progresses to single and two stage amplifiers, and moves on to multi-stage amplifiers. A variety of techniques for implementing current sources, and temperature and supply independent bias sources are covered, and the tradeoffs between them. A large portion of the class then covers feedback theory and application, and frequency response of linear analog circuits. Both MOS and bipolar circuits are covered throughout the course. By the end of this course, the student should have a firm grasp of fundamental analysis and design techniques required for proper design and implementation of analog ICs. For those students with limited background in analog ICs, this class provides an excellent coverage of the fundamentals that are required for more advanced courses, such as EE240 and EE242.
NTU number: NEEI 6331

EECS141 - Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits - Jan Rabaey - Spring 2004
UCB Extension EDP #843367 - Digital Integrated Circuits
4 units: $3460

This course provides an introduction to digital integrated circuits; both bipolar and MOS realizations are described. Examples of inverters, gates, and entire systems are considered with focus on performance parameters such as propagation delay and noise margins. Static and dynamic logic families are introduced and compared. Both bipolar and MOS realizations of multivibrators are studied. Comparisons are made about technologies with strong attention being given to TTL in bipolar and CMOS and MOS technologies. Approaches to semiconductor memory are described and compared.
NTU number: NEEI 6341

EECS 142 - Integrated Circuits for Communications - Ali Niknejad - Fall 2005
UCB Extension EDP #843375 - Introduction to Integrated Circuits for Communication
4 units: $3460

Analysis and design of electronic circuits for communication systems, with an emphasis on integrated circuits for wireless communication systems. Analysis of distortion in amplifiers with application to radio reciever design. Power amplifier design with application to wireless radio transmitters. Class A, Class B, and Class C power amplifiers. Radio-frequency mixers, oscillators, phase locked loops, modulators, and demodulators.
NTU number: NEEI 6361

EECS 225C VLSI Signal Processing- Robert Brodersen Spring 2003
UCB Extension EDP #843383 Design of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
3 units: $2595
This course aims to convey a knowledge of advanced concepts in VLSI signal processing. Emphasis is on the architectural exploration, design and optimization of signal processing systems for communications. The focus of the course will be in the exciting and exploding field of systems for wireless communications. The basic principles will be applied to architectural exploration and implementation of complete wireless systems including all aspects of the design problems such as analog digital tradeoffs, synchronization, modulation, equalization and error correction.
NTU number: NEEC 6557

EECS 231 - Solid State Devices - Vivek Subramanian - Spring 2006
UCB Extension EDP #843391 Principles and Characteristics of Solid State Devices
4 units: $3460

This course will build a strong theoretical foundation as well as an intuitive understanding of the most important behaviors of MOSFETs. Topics are chosen to highlight the limitations and promises of aggressively scaled MOSFETs, and many examples are taken from the critical issues facing the semiconductor industry. Content of the course will emphasize the physical principles and operational characteristics of semiconductor devices; metal-oxide-semiconductor systems; high-field and hot carrier effects. There is advanced discussion of bipolar and field-effect transistors with an emphasis on the behavior dictated by present and probable future technologies.
NTU number: NEEI 6302

EECS 240 - Advanced Analog Integrated Circuits - Ali Niknejad - Spring 2006
UCB Extension EDP #843409 - Analysis and Design of Advanced Analog
Integrated Circuits
3 units: $2595

This course is an advanced analog integrated circuits class. While basic theory is covered/reviewed during the class, emphasis is placed on practical design issues that face today's analog design engineers. The Gray & Meyer text forms the nucleus of the course content, with additional material added, drawn primarily from journal papers, to demonstrate advanced and innovative design techniques to the student. The bulk of the course thoroughly covers linear analog analysis and design, and the latter part gives a stimulating introduction to other important and relevant topics such as sample/hold, sc-filter, and converter circuits. While both bipolar and MOS circuits are covered, the emphasis is on MOS, which offers an excellent complement to the text material and most analog classes, which concentrate on bipolar circuits.
NTU number: NEEI 6332

EECS 241 - Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits - Jan Rabaey - Spring 2006
UCB Extension EDP #843417 - Analysis and Design of Advanced Digital Integrated Circuits
3 units: $2595

The advent of deep sub-micron technologies poses a number of profound challenges to the designer of advanced digital integrated circuits such as microprocessors, wireless communications, multimedia processors and ASICs. This state-of-the-art course presented by a leading expert in the field identifies the compelling issues facing the designer of the next decade and presents both analysis and solution techniques. Topics include the perspective and impact of technology scaling, high-performance and low-power design, timing and synchronization techniques, signal integrity, interconnect, reconfigurable logic and memory design.
NTU number: NEEI 6342

EECS 242 -Advanced Integrated Circuits for Communications Ali Niknejad Spring 2007
UCB Extension EDP #843425 - Advanced Integrated Circuits for
Communications Applications
3 units: $2595

Analysis, evaluation and design of present day integrated circuits for communications application, particularly those for which nonlinear response must be included. MOS, bipolar and BICMOS circuits, audio and video power amplifiers, optimum performance of near-sinusoidal oscillators and frequency-translation circuits. Phase-locked loop ICs, analog multipliers and voltage controlled oscillators; advanced components for telecommunication circuits. Use of new CAD tools and systems.
NTU number: NEEI 6362

EECS 245 - Introduction to MEMS - Kris Pister - Spring 2005
UCB Extension EDP #843433 - Physics, Fabrication and Design of
Micro-Electromechanical Systems
4 units: $3460

This course will begin with a summary of integrated circuit fabrication technologies leading into an overview of the technologies available to shape electromechanical elements on a submillimeter scale. Physics of MEMS devices will be covered at a level necessary to design and analyze new devices and systems. Several commercially available MEMS processes will be discussed in detail, and students will design final projects in these processes. Topical Areas Include: Basic fabrication techniques: lithography, thin film deposition, chemical and plasma etching, anisotropic silicon etching. Device physics: beam theory, electrostatic actuation, capacitive and piezoresistive sensing, thermal sensors and actuators. Standard processes: 2 layer polysilicon, CMOS, LIGA, Electronic interfacing, mechanical and electrical noise, fundamental limits CAD tools: layout, process simulation, PDE and ODE solvers, synthesis.
NTU number: NEEM 6441

EECS 247 - Analysis and Design of VLSI-Analog-Digital Interface Integrated Circuits
Bernhard Boser - Fall 2002
UCB Extension EDP #843441 - VLSI A-to-D-Interface Integrated Circuits: Advanced Design and Analysis
3 units: $2595

This course covers many aspects of the design of integrated analog and analog-digital interface electronics in CMOS and BiCMOS technology at the block and system level. Specific topics include continuous-time and sampled data filters; oversampled A/D converters; and Nyquist rate A/D- and D/A- converters. Problem-specific CAd tools such as MATLAB (filter design), Switcap (SC filter analysis), Midas (oversampled A/D converter simulator), and HSPICE will be used extensively. It covers the specification, design, and test of analog-to-digital and digital-analog converters. Both system and circuit level issues are addressed and several sample converter implementations will be analyzed in detail. Extensive use is made of system and circuit level simulations in in-class computer demonstrations and the homework.
NTU number: NEEI 6351

EE 290Q - Special Topics: Organization and Management of Ad-hoc Sensor and Actuator Networks
Jan Rabaey and Adam Wolisz- Spring 2006
UCB Extension EDP #843458 - Advanced Studies in Communication Networks
3 units: $2595

Wireless sensor and actuator networks are rapidly gaining major traction in a wide range of application areas. To be successful in the commercial arena however, a number of important criteria have to be met. First, it is essential that the individual transceiver nodes are tiny, easily integratable into the environment, and have negligible cost. Most importantly, the nodes must be self-contained in terms of energy via a one-time battery charge or a replenishable supply of energy scavenged from the environment. Realizing these very low power levels requires a vertical system-level design approach, engaging all levels of the design abstraction (from aggressive new circuit approaches over innovative networking and distributed computing techniques). Unfortunately, getting to the cost, size and power numbers needed for a truly ubiquitous deployment, comes with a penalty in reliability. Rather than falling back on traditional reliability enhancing techniques that compromise the energy-efficiency and cost of the individual nodes, a more effective solution is to rely on the unique nature of these networks, that is the ubiquitous availability of nodes. Doing so requires crisp and clearly defined abstraction layers. Another challenge that is often overlooked is the ease of deployment, configuration and management of the network. Again, it can argued to well defined abstraction layers go a long way in making this possible.

In this seminar series, we will traverse the wireless sensor and actuator paradigm in a bottom-up fashion. Starting from implementation constraints and properties of the wireless medium, we will explore the trade-off's at the all layers of the abstraction hierarchy up to the application layer. Metrics such as energy efficiency, robustness and ease of deployment will carry prominently throughout the semester. Real-life case studies will be used extensively.
NTU number: NEEC 8591

CS 252 - Graduate Computer Architecture - David Patterson - Spring 2006
UCB Extension EDP #843342 - Advanced Studies in Graduate Computer Architecture
4 units: $3460

This prototype course is offered by a winner of the UCB Distinguished teaching award. It captures the excitement and creativity of the breakthrough ideas put forth in the textbook Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Hennessy and Patterson, which encourages direct empirical measurement of interesting systems, as well as analytical evaluation and simulation in the design and evaluation of instruction sets. Topics include: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture, Instruction Set Architecture, Pipelining, and Instructional level Parallelism, VLIW/EPIC, Vector Processors, Digital Signal Processors, Memory Hierarchy, Input/Output and Storage, Networks and Interconnection Technology, and Multiprocessors. There are also guest lectures on on-going architecture research projects at Berkeley: Reconfigurable Microprocessors ("BRASS"), Embedded processor in DRAM ("IRAM"), and Systems of Systems ("Millennium"). For more details please look at the PowerPoint slides.
NTU number: NEEP 6302

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