ELEC 5970-001/6970-001 Special Topics in Electrical Engineering
Low-Power Design of Electronic Circuits
Fall 2005
Course Syllabus Grading Sheet

Lecture 1, 08/18/05 Introduction
Lecture 2, 08/23/05 and 08/25/05 Power Consumption in a CMOS Circuit
Lecture 3, 08/30/05 Capacitance in a CMOS Circuit
Lecture 4, 9/01/05 Low Voltage Low Power Devices
Lecture 5, 9/08/05 Dual-Threshold Low-Power Devices
Lecture 6, 9/13/05 Dynamic Power
Lecture 7, 9/15/05 Dynamic Power: Transistor Sizing
Lecture 8, 9/20/05 and 9/22/05 Dynamic Power: Glitch Elimination
Lecture 9, 9/27/05 Dynamic Power: Glitch-Free ASICs
Lecture 10, 9/29/05 Power Analysis: Logic Level
Lecture 11, 10/4/05 Power Analysis: Probabilistic Methods
Lecture 12, 10/11/05 Power Analysis: Probability Waveform
Lecture 13, 10/13/05 Power Analysis: High-Level
Lecture 14, 10/20/05 Pass-Transistor Logic
Lecture 15, 10/25/05 Pseudo-nMOS, Dynamic CMOS and Domino CMOS
Lecture 16, 10/27/05 Adiabatic and Charge Recovery Logic
Lecture 17, 11/01/05 Low Power Design and Parallelism
Lecture 18, 11/03/05 Power Consumption in a Memory
Lecture 19, 11/15/05 Power Aware Microprocessors
Lecture 20, 11/17/05 Test Power

Project, completion deadline and report due 11/29/05
Class Presentation schedule:
11/29/05 Alexander: Reducing Voltage Supply, slides, report
11/29/05 Vemula: Low Voltage and Parallel Processing, slides, report
11/29/05 Yogi: Logic Redesign for Low Power, slides, report
12/01/05 Dhingra: Variation of Threshold Voltage, slides, report
12/01/05 Kantipudi: Pass Transistor Logic, slides, report
12/01/05 Ramkumar: Dual Supply Voltage Low Power Design slides, report
12/06/05 Chen: Glitch Power Reduction by delays, slides, report
12/06/05 Hill: Reducing Switching Capacitance Using Buffers, slides, report

Homework 1, assigned 09/01/05, due 09/15/05.
Homework 2, assigned 09/13/05, due 09/22/05.
Homework 3, assigned 10/27/05, due 11/03/05
Homework 4, assigned 11/25/05, due 12/06/05.

Exam 1, assigned 10/18/05, due 10/25/05
Exam 2, assigned 11/27/05, due 12/08/05

List of books on low-power design (Updated 3/14/06)

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