ECE 732Advanced VLSI Devices

Units: 0.50
Level: Graduate
Faculty: Engineering
Subject: Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE 732 as listed in the Spring 2026 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.

This course covers: advanced Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) device design; future challenges of VLSI devices; the implications for device electrical performance caused by fabrication technique, physical models for nanometer scale structures, control of electrical characteristics (threshold voltage, short channel effects, ballistic transport) in small structures; and alternative device structures for VLSI in the nano era.

Prerequisites

None listed.

Antirequisites

Not completed nor concurrently enrolled in:
- ECE730

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