ELEC 6270-001/ELEC 5270-001 Low-Power Design of Electronic Circuits
Spring 2011, MWF 3PM, Broun 102
Course Syllabus, Grading sheet, statistic

Instructor: Vishwani D. Agrawal, James J. Danaher Professor of ECE

CLASS TEST: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, Broun 102, 3:00PM - 3:50PM, books, notes, computer, etc., permitted, problems, statistic.
FINAL EXAM: Wednesday, May 4, 2011, Broun 102, 4:00PM - 6:30PM, books, notes, computer, etc., permitted, problems, statistic.

HOMEWORK:
Homework 1, assigned 2/21/11, problem 5 corrected 2/23/11, due 2/28/11.
Homework 2, assigned 3/7/11, due 3/21/11.
Homework 3, assigned 3/28/11, due 4/8/11 (extended), Relevant files: dc_synScript.tcl dotsynopsys_dc.setup pt_script.tcl
Classwork 4, assigned 4/15/11, due 4/15/11; Please complete this work in the class. If you need more time you can take it home. Submit either by email or leave your answers in my office or mail box.

PROJECT: Assignment 4/8/11, final report due 4/27/11
Two lectures on CAD tools from ELEC5270/6270-001, spring 2009 that may be useful:
VHDL Review
VLSI Simlation and Synthesis Tools

LECTURES:
Lecture 1: Introduction to Low Power Design, 1/12/11
Lecture 2: Power Dissipation of CMOS Circuits, 1/19/11
Lecture 3: Gate-Level Power Analysis, 1/24/11
Lecture 4: Linear Programming, 2/4/11
Lecture 5: Gate-Level Power Optimization, 2/11/11
Lecture 6: Test Power, 2/23/11
Lecture 7: Energy Source Design, 3/4/11
Lecture 8: Adiabatic Logic, 3/11/11
Lecture 9: Pseudo-nMOS, Dynamic CMOS and Domino CMOS Logic, 3/23/11
Guest Lecture by M. Allani: Tutorial on Primetime PX, 3/28/11
Guest Lecture by M. Allani: Introduction to Writing a Test Bench in HDL, 4/1/11
Lecture 12: Pass Transistor Logic: A Low Power Logic Family, 4/4/11
Lecture 13: Memory and Multicore Design, 4/11/11
Lecture 14: Power Aware Microprocessors, 4/22/11

READING ASSIGNMENTS:
3/7/11: R. W. Erikson, "DC-DC Power Converters," Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
3/7/11: M. Chen and G. A. Rincon-Mora, "Accurate Electrical Battery Model . . . ," IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 504-511, June 2006.
3/7/11: M. Kulkarni and V. D. Agrawal, "Energy Source Lifetime Optimization . . . ," Proc. SSST, Auburn, March 14-16, 2011, pp. 75-80.
3/9/11: G. Goth, "Chipping Away at Greenhouse Gases," CACM, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 13-15, February 2011.
4/25/11: T. Sakurai, "Alpha Power-Law Model," IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 4-5, Oct. 2004.

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