低功率積體電路設計

Low-power circuit design is one of the critical design challenges for high-performance computing, mobile devices, IoT devices and biomedical applications. Thus, the goal of this course is to introduce low-power design techniques of nano-scale ICs from circuit-level, architecture-level to system-level, particularly emphasizing on low-voltage design. Currently, low-voltage design has been attracted huge attention from the industry of IC design. Additionally, advanced AI-related circuits will be also discussed in this course.

Electronics, VLSI Design

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https://sites.google.com/site/nctueecslab/

1. Class Participation (10% ) 2. Exercises (20% ) 3. Midterm Proposal for your final report (15% ) 4. Final Exam (20% ) 5. Final Project Presentation (10% ) 6. Final Project Report (25% )

• Introduction to low power IC design

  Introduce the importance of low-power applications and design challenges of low-power circuits

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  3

• Overview of nano-scale CMOS digital circuits

  Review IC design abstraction level and design flow, and introduce the design challenges of nano-scale CMOS digital circuits

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  4.5

• Power reduction techniques

  Introduce various power reduction techniques, including static-power, dynamic-power, design-phase and run-time power reduction techniques

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  4.5

• Energy-efficient architecture

  Analyze the design trade-off among power, performance and area in architecture-level

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  4.5

• Low-voltage design

  Introduce low-voltage circuit design (near-threshold and sub-threshold) and the corresponding design challenges

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  4.5

• Power management

  Discuss the power control circuits and power management methods for dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) systems

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  4.5

• Low-power memory circuits and memory systems

  Introduce the power analysis and low-power design of memory circuits and memory systems

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  4.5

• Timing control for low-power Circuits

  Present timing-tolerant, self-timed and asynchronization circuits for low-power circuits

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  4.5

• Variation-tolerant circuit design

  Discuss the variation-aware or variation-tolerant design techniques for advanced technologies

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  4.5

• Advanced AI-related circuits and architectures

  Introduce to AI-related circuits and architectures, such as spike neural network, deep learning, convolution neural network

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  4.5

• Low-power design methodology and I/O interface

  Review low-power design methodology and multi-mode multi-corner (MMMC) optimization

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  3

1. Class notes 2. Digital Integrated Circuits, by Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nikolic 3. Integrated circuit design, by Neil Weste and David Harris

地點

MIRC 301

時間

After class or by appointment

聯絡方式

By email