Oct. 1	Introduction to CS/EE181 and VLSI
		Oct. 3	Transistors, CMOS, and layout
		Oct. 8	magic tutorial session (in lab)
		Oct. 10	Boolean algebra
		Oct. 15	Fabrication details and layout techniques
		Oct. 17	Memories, registers
		Oct. 22	Clocks, finite state machines, PLAs
		Oct. 24	Design hierarchy
		Oct. 29	Project examples
		Oct. 31	Data paths
		Nov. 5	ALUs
		Nov. 7	Transistor equations, logic optimization, tau model
		Nov. 12	Basic scaling
		Nov. 14	Modern problems in VLSI I
		Nov. 19	Modern problems in VLSI II
		Nov. 21	Modern problems in VLSI III
		Nov. 26
		Nov. 28	Thanksgiving holiday
		Dec. 3
		Dec. 5

The last three lectures of the term will be used for project presentations and/or to cover especially interesting topics in extra depth.

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