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EE194 (Fall 2023)

Test Integrated Circuit Chips Designed in Previous Tapeout Classes

Course Outline

Week Date Lecture Topic Lab / Homework
Week 1 2023-08-24 Overview of the 3 chips (slides), Lab Etiquette (slides), Previous Chip Demo  
Week 2 2023-08-29 Review & Improve Tapeout Chip Documentation (slides)  
  2023-08-31 Student presentation - Go over chip documentation: what to test, how to test  
Week 3 2023-09-05 Introduction to PCB (1) (slides in GDrive)  
  2023-09-07 Introduction to PCB (2)  
Week 4 2023-09-12 Introduction to PCB (3)  
  2023-09-14 SCuM-V 23 Review (slides)  
Week 5 2023-09-19 RISC-V Embedded Systems Crash Course (slides) Embedded Systems Lab
  2023-09-21 Intel FPGA (slides)  
Week 6 2023-09-26    
  2023-09-28    
Week 7 2023-10-03    
  2023-10-04 Wafer out of fab (expected)  
  2023-10-05    
Week 8 2023-10-10    
  2023-10-12    
Week 9 2023-10-17    
  2023-10-19    
Week 10 2023-10-24    
  2023-10-26    
Week 11 2023-10-31 How to test a radio - Transmitter  
  2023-11-02    
Week 12 2023-11-07 How to test a radio - Receiver  
  2023-11-09    
Week 13 2022-11-14 How to test a radio - PLL/LO  
  2022-11-16    
Week 14 2022-11-21    
  2022-11-23 Thanksgiving Break  
Week 15 2022-11-28    
  2022-11-30    
Week 16 2022-12-05 RRR  
  2022-12-07 RRR  
Week 17 2022-12-12 Finals  
  2022-12-14 Finals  

Chip Testings

OSCIBEAR Bringup Note

BearlyML22 Testing Note

SCuM-V22 Testing Note

SCuM-V23 Spec (PDF version) (Web version)

Guide on how to contribute to the spec

Resources

Useful Lectures

CS 61C Playlist

EECS 151 Playlist

EE194 Tapeout/Bringup Drive

Other Git Repos

OsciBear Chipyard

BearlyML22 - private for now, ask in Slack for access

SCuM-V22 - private for now, ask in Slack for access

Slack

bCourses

Statement on Academic Misconduct

Statement on DSP Accomendation

Staff

   
Borivoje Nikolic bora at berkeley dot edu
Ali Niknejad niknejad at berkeley dot edu
Anita Marie Flynn aflynn at berkeley dot edu
Franklin Huang hongyihuang at berkeley dot edu
Yufeng Chi chiyufeng at berkeley dot edu