Intro

Welcome to the home page of EE6350 VLSI Design Lab for Spring 2022.

This graduate course focuses on the design, simulation, layout, verification and tape-out of an IC design. Student teams conceived, designed, simulated, laid out and verified their chip designs in the Spring 2022 semester. The chips were fabricated in the TSMC 65nm process over summer. Chip testing and system demonstration was done in the Fall of 2022.

The Spring TAs for the course were Petar Barac, Armagan Dascurcu, and Ray Xu. In Fall, Petar and Longyi Li assisted students with chip testing.

These projects could not have been successful without the dedication and hard work of the students and TAs. Kudos to them!

We thank Apple Inc. for sponsoring the fabrication of the chips. Many thanks to Dr. Anuranjan Jha for being the liaison to Apple for the course. Many thanks also to the EE department for supporting the teaching staff and to Prof. Ken Shepard, Richard Lee, Kington Chan, and Yoel Rio for their assistance with the course.

Enjoy the presentation videos and project websites and do not hesitate to send us your feedback. The contact information of the students is included.

Last, but not least, take a look at the work from students in earlier years; Check out the 2016 course page, the 2015 course page, or the 2014 course page. And the class is being offered in 2023, as well.

Peter Kinget, Dec. 2022