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The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The State University of New York at Stony Brook is proud to be a Cadence University Program Member. Cadence Electronic Design Automation tools are used heavily in our academic offerings, courses in analog, digital, and mixed signal design as well as various research projects.
Cadence Products are used extensively in the following courses:
ESE 123: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering (4): Introduces basic electrical and computer engineering concepts in a dual approach that includes: laboratories for hands-on wired and computer simulation experiments in analog and logic circuits, and lectures providing concepts and theory relevant to the laboratories. Emphasizes physical insight and applications rather than theory. Pre- or Corequisites: AMS 151 or MAT 125 or 131 or 141; PHY 125 or 131 or 141
ESE 280 Embedded Microcontroller Systems Design I (4): Fundamental design of microcontroller-based electronic systems. Topics include system level architecture, microcontrollers, memory, configurable ports, peripheral ICs, interrupts, sensors, and actuators, serial data protocols, assembly language programming, debugging, and table driven FSMs. Hardware/software trade-offs in implementing system functions. Hardware and software design are equally emphasized. Laboratory work involves design, implementation, and verification of microcontroller systems. This course has an associated fee. Please see www.stonybrook.edu/coursefees for more information. Fall. Prerequisite: ESE or ECE major; ESE 118 or permission of instructor.
ESE 330: Integrated Electronics (3): An overview of the design and fabrication of integrated circuits. Topics include gate-level and transistor-level design; fabrication material and processes; layout of circuits; automated design tools. This material is directly applicable to industrial IC design and provides a strong background for more advanced courses. Prerequisite: ESE 273
ESE 345 Computer Architecture (3): This course focuses on the fundamental techniques of designing and evaluating modern computer architectures and tradeoffs present at the hardware/software boundary. The emphasis is on instruction set design, processor design, memory and parallel processing. Students will get an understanding of the design process in the context of a complex computer system. Students will undertake a VHDL/Verilog design project using modern CAD tools. Prerequisites: ESE 280 and ESE 382
ESE 355 VLSI System Design (4): Introduces techniques and tools for scalable VLSI design and analysis. Emphasis is on physical design and on performance analysis. Includes extensive laboratory experiments and hands-on use of CAD tools. Prerequisite: ESE 118
ESE 381 Embedded Microprocessor Systems Design II (4): A continuation of ESE 380. The entire system design cycle, including requirements definition and system specifications, is covered. Topics include real-time requirements, timing, interrupt driven systems, analog data conversion, multi-module and multi-language systems. The interface between high-level language and assembly language is covered. A complete system is designed and prototyped in the laboratory. Spring. Prerequisite: ESE 271 and 280
ESE 382 Digital Design Using VHDL and PLDs (4): Digital system design using the hardware description language VHDL and system implementation using complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Topics include design methodology, VHDL syntax, entities, architectures, test benches, subprograms, packages, and libraries. Behavioral and structural coding styles for the synthesis of combinational and sequential circuits are covered. Architectures and characteristics of PLDs and FPGAs are studied. Laboratory work involves writing the VHDL descriptions and test benches for designs, compiling and functionally simulating the designs, fitting and timing simulation of the fitted designs, and programming the designs into a CPLD or FPGA and bench testing. Spring. Prerequisite: ESE or ECE major; ESE 218 or permission of instructor
ESE 516: Integrated Electronic Devices and Circuits I (3): Theory and applications: elements of semiconductor electronics, methods of fabrication, bipolar junction transistors, FET, MOS transistors, diodes, capacitors, and resistors. Design techniques for linear digital integrated electronic components and circuits. Discussion of computer-aided design, MSI, and LSI.
ESE 517: Integrated Electronic Devices and Circuits II (3): Theory and applications: elements of semiconductor electronics, methods of fabrication, bipolar junction transistors, FET, MOS transistors, diodes, capacitors, and resistors. Design techniques for linear digital integrated electronic components and circuits. Discussion of computer-aided design, MSI, and LSI.
ESE 545 Computer Architecture: The course covers uni-processor and pipelined vector processors. Topics include: hierarchical organization of a computer system; processor design; control design; memory organization and virtual memory; I/O systems; balancing subsystem bandwidths; RISC processors; principles of designing pipelined processors; vector processing on pipelines; examples of pipelined processors. The course involves a system design project using VHDL. Prerequisite: ESE 318 or equivalent. Spring, 4 credits.
ESE 555 Advanced VLSI Circuit Design: Techniques of VLSI circuit design in the MOS technology are presented. Topics include MOS transistor theory, CMOS processing technology, MOS digital circuit analysis and design and various CMOS circuit design techniques. Digital systems are designed and simulated throughout the course using an assortment of VLSI design tools. Prerequisite: BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Spring, 3 credits.
ESE 556 VLSI-CAD Physical and Logic Design Automation: Problems in Computer-Aided Design for the physical design of VLSI circuits are surveyed, and algorithms for their solution are analyzed. Specific problems include global routing, placement, partitioning, channel routing, module generation, compaction and performance optimization. Existing silicon compilers are studied. Students are expected to design and implement a VLSI- CAD tool. Prerequisite: BS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Fall, 3 credits.
ESE 575 Advanced VLSI Signal Processing Architecture: This course is concerned with advanced aspects of VLSI architecture in digital signal processing and wireless communications. The first phase of the course covers the derivation of both data transformation and control sequencing from a behavioral description of an algorithm. The next phase reviews the general purpose and dedicated processor for signal processing algorithms. This course focuses on low-complexity high-performance algorithm development and evaluation, system architecture modeling, power-performance tradeoff analysis. The emphasis is on the development of application-specific VLSI architectures for current and future generation of wireless digital communication systems. An experimental/research project is required. Prerequisite: ESE 355 or equivalent. ESE 305 or ESE 337 or equivalent. ESE 306 or ESE 340 or equivalent. ESE 380 or equivalent. Spring, 3 credits.
ESE 585: Nanoscale Integrated Circuit Design (3): This course describes high performance and low power integrated circuit (IC) design issues for advanced nanoscale technologies. After a brief review of VLSI design methodologies and current IC trends, fundamental challenges related to the conventional CMOS technologies are described. The shift from logic-centric to interconnect-centric design is emphasized. Primary aspects of an interconnect-centric design flow are described in four phases: (1) general characteristics of on-chip interconnects, (2) on-chip interconnects for data signals, (3) on-chip power generation and distribution, and (4) on-chip clock generation and distribution. Existing design challenges faced by IC industry are investigated for each phase. Tradeoffs among various design criteria such as speed-power-noise-area are highlighted. In the last phase of the course, several post-CMOS devices, emerging circuit styles, and architectures are briefly discussed. At the end of the course, the students will have a thorough understanding of the primary circuit and physical level design challenges with application to industrial IC design.
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