VLSI Design

Static and dynamic CMOS gates, CMOS circuit fabrication, design rules, resistance and capacitance extraction, power and delay estimation, scaling, MOS combinational and sequential logic design, registers and clocking schemes, memory and data-path; elements of computer-aided circuit analysis, synthesis, and layout techniques. evaluation; Instruction set design; including data speculation, performance synchronization methods, advanced instruction level parallelism, pipelining, branch prediction; memory hierarchy, cache memory, virtual memory, and virtual memory; I/O interface devices, specification, and modeling pipelining, caches, virtual memory, and multiprocessors.