SUGGESTED COURSE WORK FOR MY STUDENTS (or for VLSI Concentration)

A. Basic Theory, Numerics, Computing Tools

ECE 557 Computational Electronics

ECE 593M/559 (TBD)  Computational Electronics II  [multiscale modeling and simulations: ab initio, MD, empirical, transport (SE-liuoville-wigner-BTE-HD-DD-compact), response (magnetic, optical, thermal coupling)]

       (Link to lectures on Computational Physics at Oregon State)

ECE592  Atomistic Computer Modeling of Materials  and a nanoHUB course is here

ECE 592 Supriyo Datta's Quantum Transport course on nanoHUB)

ECE 592 Introduction to Nanoelectronics (Supriyo Datta's course on nanoHUB)

ECE 547 Solid-State Theory of Electronic Materials  

MATH 475-6 (3, 3) Numerical Analysis 

(ECE 592 MIT courses: Linear Algebra  Computational Science and Engineering I  Mathematical Methods for Engineers II  Finite Element Analysis)

CS 520 Introduction to Parallel Programming  (a similar MIT Course is here)

PHY 430-3 Quantum Mechanics I

PHY 425-3 Solid State Physics I      

B. Devices (building blocks of ICs and semiconductor technology)

ECE 447 Semiconductor Devices    (ECE 592 Principles of Semiconductor Devices on nanoHUB.org) 

ECE 550 Nanoscale VLSI Devices

ECE 545 Advanced Semiconductor Devices (Theory of transition rates; Devices: memory; energy-related: solar, LEDs/SSLs, thermoelectrics, batteries; biomedical/environment; consumer electronics: CCDs, LCDs)

ECE 548 Quantum Phenomena and Devices (quantum charge, spin, computing)

ECE 560 VLSI Material and Device Characterization (materials and IC processing; characterization techniques; device reliability)

(good resources on nanoHUB are Nanomaterials,  Fundamentals of Atomic Force Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy Skills, Device Reliability tutorials, nanoHUB course on Reliability)

C. Circuits/Systems

ECE 329/429/529 (Computer Architecture)
ECE 426/516 (VLSI-HDL)
ECE 524 (Synthesis and Verification using Verilog)

Digital/ASIC Circuits:  ECE 423/513, ECE 528, ECE 523 (low-power VLSI), ECE 515 (3-D IC)
Analog: ECE 446, ECE 543 (Analog VLSI), ECE 531 (Mixed-Signal VLSI Design), ECE 540 (RF ICs)
Embedded: ECE 514

ECE 425/525 (Physical Design Automation)

ECE 521/ (Fault-Tolerant IC Design)

ECE 522 (VLSI Circuit Testing)

D. Other

ECE 468 Digital Signal Processing or, ECE 558 Digital Image Processing I

ECE 477 Fields & Waves I  (a similar MIT Course is here)

ECE 483 Power Electronics  

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