From bits to chips: a multidisciplinary curriculum for microelectronics system design education

Author

Bernstein, Gary H. ; Brockman, Jay B. ; Kogge, Peter M. ; Snider, Gregory L. ; Walvoord, Barbara E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Notre Dame Univ., IN, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

1-2 June 2003

Firstpage

95

Lastpage

97

Abstract

We describe a program in multidisciplinary education of microelectronics systems design at the University of Notre Dame. In the "Bits-to-Chips" course sequence, faculty from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering Departments, and the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning have coordinated their related courses and teaching methods, and team-teach a course on advanced technologies and systems-on-a-chip (SOC). Projects in the capstone course have involved the design and fabrication, completely by the students, of CMOS circuits with 10,000 transistors, and are now developing projects with roughly 50,000 devices. A recent project is an accelerometer control chip for insertion into a model rocket launch. Projects are also submitted to MOSIS for comparison with the students\´ efforts.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; educational courses; electronic engineering education; integrated circuit design; student experiments; system-on-chip; CMOS circuits; Kaneb center; SOC; University of Notre Dame; accelerometer control chip; bits to chips course; capstone course; complementary metaloxide semiconductor; computer science and engineering; electrical engineering; engineering department; learning; microelectronics system design education; multidisciplinary curriculum; multidisciplinary education; rocket launch; system on chip; teaching methods; transistor; Accelerometers; CMOS technology; Circuits; Computer science; Computer science education; Educational programs; Fabrication; Microelectronics; System-on-a-chip; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronic Systems Education, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1973-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSE.2003.1205271

Filename

1205271