Digital Integrated Technology

4 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: (EECS 423 or EECS 425) and EECS 311 and EECS 320. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (4 credits) Integrated circuit fabrication overview, relationships between processing choices and device performance characteristics. Long-channel device I-V review, short-channel MOSFET I-V characteristics including velocity saturation, mobility degradation, hot carriers, gate depletion. MOS device scaling strategies, silicon-on-insulator, lightly-doped drain structures, on-chip interconnect parasitics and performance. Major CMOS scaling challenges. Process and circuit simulation.