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• Book related material
  • Harris & Weste Book's companion web site
  • David Harris's CMOS VLSI Design Homepage
  • Brunvand book website
• Introduction to VLSI Systems: The book that introduced the world to designing with MOS.
• Real Microprocessors
• Design information
  • MOSIS Fab Facility
  • Online MOSIS Design Rules
  • Local copy of design rules
  • Drennan and McAndrew, IEEE JSSC, March 2003
• Semiconductor Information
  • Intel’s 45nm CMOS Technology
  • "From Electron Mobility to Logical Structure: A View of Integrated Circuits"by Clark, W. A. 1980. ACM Comput. Surv. 12, 3 (Sep. 1980), 325-356
  • Drennan and McAndrew: Understanding MOSFET Mismatch for Analog Design JSSC, March 2003 (Link to IEEE Xplore)
  • Drennan and McAndrew: Understanding MOSFET Mismatch for Analog Design CICC 2002 (Link to IEEE Xplore)
  • 180nm cell library
• New Technology
  • Supercapacitors"
• Design tools
  • The Electric Design/Layout tool: User's Manual
    • How to Install Java JAR version. Current is Version 9.07. (The binary version worked directly without any extras on at least Windows 7)
    • How to run it. Note the memory limitation if you try "large" designs
    • Simple tutorial to lay out a 2in NAND + Invertor and simulate
    • Tutorial for Electric
  • A simple online circuit simulator
  • Cheat sheet for vi editor
• Verilog
  • Cadence Documents under ND access control:
    • SimVision User Guide
    • NCVerilog User Guide
    • NCVerilog Verbose Command Help
    • Verilog-XL User Guide
    • Verilog-XL Reference
    • Verilog A User Guide
    • Verlog A Debugger Guide
    • Spector Circuit Simulator Reference
    • Spectre Circuit Simulator User Guide
    • Virtuoso Layout User Guide
    • Component Description Format (CDF) User Guide
  • Xilinx ISE Webpack
    • Youtube ISE Installation
    • ISE Verilog Tutorial with Digilent board support
    • Xilinx ISE tutorials
    • Xilinx ISim Manual
    • Xilinix ISim Tutorial
    • ISE Tutorial
  • Verilog Quick Reference Card
  • Tutorial from Deepak Tala
    • In one document
    • Verilog in one day
    • My 1st program
  • A tutorial based on W&H
  • 8 bit MIPS in Verilog
    • MIPS Overview
    • MIPS in Verilog. Behavioral Code. Structural Code
• SCMOS Layout Rules
  • 1 Well
  • 2 Active
  • 3 Poly
  • 4 N+ and P+ Active Select
  • 5 Contact
  • 7 Metal 1
  • 8 Via 1 and 9 Metal 2
• SPICE references
  • A short reference paper
  • Some NASA chart-form tutorials
  • PSPICE Tutorial from Purdue
  • Everything you always wanted to know about SPICE But were afraid to ask. in The EMC Journal May 2009
• Famous references
  • MOS Characteristics
    • Shockley, William, A Unipolar "Field-Effect" Transistor,Proceedings of the IRE Volume 40, Issue 11, Nov. 1952 Page(s):1365 - 1376 (Link to IEEE Xplore)
  • Moore's Law
    • Intel 40th Anniversity of Moore's Law web site
    • Moore, Gordon E. (1965). Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Electronics Magazine. pp. 4.
    • "Excerpts from A Conversation with Gordon Moore: Moore’s Law." Intel Corporation. 2005.
    • "1965 - “Moore's Law” Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits". Computer History Museum. 2007.
  • Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson (1997), Crystal Fire: The Birth of the Information Age, Sloan Technology Series, W.W. Norton & Co, 1997.
• FPGA Boards
  • Basys boards
    • Basys VQ100 Reference Manual
  • Nexsy2 boards
    • Nexsy2 Reference Manual
    • Nexsy2 board Schematic
    • (2/10/09) Xilinx Spartan 3e Data Sheet
    • On board RAM chip
      • Data Sheet
      • (2/10/09): Notes on chip Courtesy Kevin Cartcart
      • (2/10/09): Verilog models from Micron website: All zipped files, Just the chip model
      • (2/12/09): Digilent Memory Module Utility and User's Manual
  • Picoblaze embeddable core
    • Picoblaze overview
    • Picoblaze reference manual
  • Accessory boards
    • Analog to digital converter
      • Dual convertor board
      • Dual convertor board schematic
      • (1/16/09): National ADCS7476MSPS Data Sheet
    • Digital to Analog converter
      • Dual convertor DA1 board
      • Dual convertor board DA1 schematic
      • Dual convertor DA2 board
      • Dual convertor board DA2 schematic
      • (1/16/09): National DAC121S101 Data Sheet
    • Speaker board
      • Single Channel Speaker Periperial Module
      • Speaker/Stereo Headphone Periperial Module
      • Speaker/Stereo Headphone Periperial Module Schematic
      Public
• Simple "Project Scale" Computers used in prior classes
  • Simple 12 - a simple accumulator computer: a Lecture and an overview
  • JAM - a subset of the Java Virtual Machine
    • Overview of variants
    • The original JAM-8
    • 16 bit variant
• Technology related:
  • Find out more about Moore's Law
  • The Evolution of Microprocessor Packaging
  • An Online Tour of VLSI Assembly
  • Article on Intel & 45 nm fab production
  • Intel presentation on Indium Antimony replacing Silicon
  • EE Times, 5/2/2011. Page 7 has Apple iPhone 4 breakdown.

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