VLSI Circuit Design Workstations

这个项目的目的是配置6个网络工程工作站，配备高分辨率彩色显示器、两台绘图仪和一台打印机，作为实验室设备，支持超大规模集成电路数字和模拟电路设计课程。该设备将允许本科电气工程专业的学生建模、设计、模拟和生产VLSI电路的掩模。通过MOSIS制造电路将闭合设计循环：概念-设计-布图-仿真-测试。从几个角度来看，该项目意义重大：(1)有了这种设备的实验室，并配合适当材料的讲座，将很快教会学生如何设计，而不是简单地分析；(2)它将是一个很好的教学工具，将电子、器件物理、数字系统、处理、信号理论在其他课程中通常是相互独立的，(3)它将消除复杂设计的神秘性，是激发和建立学生信心的良好机制。

The aim of this project is to configure six networked engineering workstations with high resolution color monitors, two plotters and a printer to be used as laboratory equipment in support of a course in VLSI digital and analog circuit design. The equipment will allow undergraduate electrical engineering students to model, design, and simulate and produce masks for VLSI circuits. Fabrication of the circuits through MOSIS will close the design loop: concept-design-layout-simulation-testing. The project is significant from several standpoints: (1) a laboratory with this equipment and coordinated with lectures around appropriate material will quickly teach students how to design rather than simply analyze, (2) it will be a good teaching vehicle to bring together basic scientific and engineering principles in electronics, device physics, digital systems, processing, and signal theory that are often taught independent of one another in other courses, and (3) it will remove the mystery of complex designs and be a good mechanism to inspire and build student confidence.