Digital IC Design OverviewDigital Computation is now ubiquitous, everything can compute. VLSI design concepts are necessary for all levels of digital computer design from computer architecture down to digital logic gates. Communication devices have digital computation leading to the merger of computers and communication devices.Digital electronics continue to grow in capability and decrease in cost as the effects of Moore’s law continue. CMOS technology is dominant presently, but the basics of digital design, test, verification, and validation will apply whatever the next technology is. Microprocessor designers, ASIC designers, and FPGA designers all use the digital electronics concepts in this track. The digital designers model their design at their level of abstraction and verify their implementation with other levels.Digital designers today start with general VLSI design techniques learned with an MS degree and then apply those skills to the particular requirements of their job. This gives the digital IC design engineer the tools to deliver successful digital designs.CoreECE 525 Digital Integrated Circuit Design IECE 526 Digital Integrated Circuit Design IIECE 530 Physical Design of Digital Integrated Circuits ECE 581 ASIC Modeling and Synthesis(NOTE: ECE 530 was first offered in Spring 2023, but is equivalent to the ECE 510 ASIC Modeling and Synthesis II course that was previously offered.)Depth and Breadth Course listECE 515 Fundamentals of Semiconductor DevicesECE 516 IC TechnologiesECE 521 Analog Design Integrated Circuit IECE 522 Analog Design Integrated Circuit IIECE 527 High-Performance Digital SystemsECE 528 VLSI-Computer-Aided DesignECE 529 Advanced VLSI Computer-Aided DesignECE 531 Microwave Circuit Design IECE 540 System On a Chip Design with FPGAsECE 544 Embedded System Design with FPGAsECE 575 Introduction to Integrated Circuit TestECE 582 Formal Verification of HW/SW SystemsECE 583 Low Power IC DesignECE 585 Microprocessors System DesignECE 586 Computer ArchitectureECE 587 Advanced Computer Architecture IECE 588 Advanced Computer Architecture IIECE 590 Digital Design Using Hardware Description LanguagesTrack Completion FormsProgram Completion FormThesis Program Completion FormTrack Director Yuchen Huang, Instructor Yuchen’s primary focus is on teaching and she directs the ECE MS graduate track in Digital IC Design. Prior to joining the ECE department, she was at Intel Corporation for 21 years in Hillsboro, Oregon, where she... See full profile for Yuchen Huang Supporting Faculty John M. Acken, Adjunct Research Professor John M. Acken is a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR. He received his BS and MS in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University and... See full profile for John M. Acken David Burnett, Assistant Professor Dr. Burnett joined Portland State in 2020 as part of the Environmental Sensing and Monitoring focus leveraging his background in integrated circuit design and environmental sensing. During his Ph.D. at Berkeley he was... See full profile for David Burnett Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske, Professor /* /*]]>*/ Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske spent 3 years on the faculty of the Electronics Engineering Department at the Technical University of Warsaw and 7 years at the Institute of Electron Technology in Warsaw,... See full profile for Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske Mark Faust, Assistant Professor Professor Faust has been with the ECE Department at PSU since 2004. Prior to that he worked in the high performance workstation, EDA, software, and ATE industries as an engineer, Vice-President of Engineering, and GM... See full profile for Mark Faust Roy Kravitz, Senior Instructor Roy is a Senior instructor and the director of the ECE Westside program. He has created and co-taught courses in FPGA design, digital systems design, embedded systems, and computer architecture for more than 25 years.... See full profile for Roy Kravitz M P Marek Perkowski, Professor Professor Perkowski received his M.S. degree in electronics in 1970 and his Ph.D. degree in automatic control in 1980 He has been on the faculty of Warsaw Technical University, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,... See full profile for Marek Perkowski Xiaoyu Song, Professor Professor Song received his PhD degree from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1991. From 1992 to 1998, he was on the faculty at the University of Montreal, Canada. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer... See full profile for Xiaoyu Song Adjunct Faculty Brian Cruikshank, MSEE, Senior PE, Ampere. Expertise: ACIS Design. Ataur R. Patwary, Ph.D, EE, Intel Corporation. Expertise: Circuit Design Useful Links for Current and Prospective Students MS Program Admissions MS Program Requirements Research Laboratories ECE Course Information