Semiconductor Devices for IC Design

Creating state-of-the-art IC design requires an in-depth understanding of basic characteristics of semiconductor devices and their second-order effects and device modeling. This course is ideal if you are a working professional who has no experience in IC design yet are interested in increasing your understanding of semiconductor devices and their modeling to begin your integrated-circuit design career. Study bipolar junction transistors and metal-oxide semiconductors, with an emphasis on physical concepts, operation principles, second-order effects, and modeling and simulation. You complete an individual project, with topic options that include nanoelectronics, transistor scaling and future trends, recent breakthroughs and real-world issues in complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) nanotechnology ranging from 90nm down to 22nm, CMOS device design and performance parameters, and future trends in the statistical IC design in nanoelectronics.