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Mixed-Signal VLSI Design

Summer 2025 > Engineering/Engineering Technology > EECE.5120 > 045

Course No: EECE.5120-045; SIS Class Nbr: 3227; SIS Term: 3440
Course Status: Open

Course Description

The course covers a wide spectrum of topics related to challenges in modern VLSI design. Students will learn the skills of overcoming these problems when two opposing signal domains are integrated onto a single chip. Understanding physical layout representation and the effects of alternative layout solutions on circuit and system specifications is critical in modern designs. Students will learn to use the CAD tools widely used by the semiconductor industry for layout, schematic capture, advanced simulation, parasitic extraction, floorplanning and place and route. specifically, the course provides a review of fundamentals of semiconductor components. In the next step, basic building blocks of digital and analog design are described. The course concludes with challenges of large scale integration under varying operation conditions. An individual project involving a layout design from specification to implementation is included.

Prerequisites, Notes & Instructor

  • Prerequisites: Students with a CSCE career need permission to take Graduate Level Courses.
  • Section Notes: Live Online Course; Live Online Course: Attend class remotely during specific days and times (sometimes referred to as synchronous learning). Instructors may deliver lessons from an off-campus location, from a campus classroom, lab or studio, and you¿ll also make use of Blackboard, UMass Lowell¿s online learning management tool.
  • Core Codes: STEM, ONLINE SYN
  • Credits: 3; Contact Hours: 3
  • Instructor: Abu Hena Muhammad Nazir Hossain
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When Offered & Tuition

  • M,W | 6:30 PM-9:20 PM ET
  • 2025 Summer: May 19 to Jul 02
  • Course Level: Graduate
  • Tuition: $1800 | Pay as little as $ 917.50/mo for this course.
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  • Note: There is a $30 per semester registration fee for credit courses.

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