- Digital electronics (1st) - Electronic Components and Circuits (2nd)

In this subject, students will acquire the basic required knowledge to design integrated circuits: - Ability to design integrated circuits at a high level, understanding and make an appropriate use of design methodology - Ability to design, simulate and synthesize digital circuits usign Hardware Description Languages - Knowledge concerning integrated circuits technology and manufacturing processes - Ability to analyze and design integrated circuits at physical level - Knoledge concerning integrated circuit testing and the implications in the design process - Ability to quantify and improve circuit performance, power usage and reliability. - Knoledge concerning the computer aided design (CAD) techniques and tools available for digital integrated circuits design.

1. Introduction to integrated circuits. Design methodology 2. VHDL language: introduction and basic concepts - Design units: entity and architecture - Objects, operators - Statements: concurrent and sequential - Hierarchy and components 3. Combinational and sequential circuit design using VHDL - Description of combinational circuits - Description of sequential circuits: registers, counters and Finite State Machines 4. Circuit validation through simulation - Suggestions to validate a circuit in a convenient way - Description of test benches in VHDL - Automatic assessment - Simulation models 5. Digital integrated circuit design at the register tranfer level - Serial architectures - Parallel architectures - Pipelined architectures 6. Integrated circuit manufacturing and packaging - Design of logic gates at transistor level - Manufacturing process - Packages - Implementation types - Practical considerations in integrated circuit designs: clock trees, timing optimization, latch-up effect 7. Integrated circuits at the physisca level - Layout design - Layout analysis 8. Integrated circuit testing - Stuck-at fault model - Test vector generation - BIST - Scan-path

The course will be developed through the following activities: 1. Theoretical lectures. Their objective is to provide students with the required knoledge, and the realization of practical exercises to develop this knoledge in an applied way. Students will receive lecture notes and will have basic refference texts. 2. Practical lectures in informatics rooms and laboratories. They have the objective of guiding students in the develoment of a practical case and the ue of simulation and synthesis tools. A mid-low complexity circuit will be designed and implemented in a programmable circuit. 3. Student work: exercises and complementary readings, sugested by the teacher. Personal work. 4. Exams