Electrical Engineering 141

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Title	Introduction to Digital Integrated Circuits
Instructor in Charge	Jan M. Rabaey
Units	4
Prerequisites	40; 105 and 150 recommended.
Description	CMOS devices and deep sub-micron manufacturing technology. CMOS inverters and complex gates. Modeling of interconnect wires. Optimization of designs with respect to a number of metrics: cost, reliability, performance, and power dissipation. Sequential circuits, timing considerations, and clocking approaches. Design of large system blocks, including arithmetic, interconnect, memories, and programmable logic arrays. Introduction to design methodologies, including hands-on experience.
Exam Files	Available
Newsgroup	ucb.class.ee141

Sections Instructor Teaching Effectiveness How worthwhile was this course?

Fall 2007 Alon 6.6 / 7 ± 0.3
6.5 / 7 ± 0.3

Spring 2007 Nikolic (1/2) 5.6 / 7 ± 0.5
5.4 / 7 ± 0.5

Spring 2007 Vladimirescu (2/2) 4.7 / 7 ± 0.6
6.2 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 2006 Nikolic 6.0 / 7 ± 0.3
6.4 / 7 ± 0.2

Spring 2006 Nikolic 5.2 / 7 ± 0.4
6.1 / 7 ± 0.3

Fall 2005 Markovic 4.9 / 7 ± 0.4
4.9 / 7 ± 0.5

Spring 2005 Vladimirescu 4.3 / 7 ± 0.4
5.6 / 7 ± 0.3

Fall 2004 Nikolic 5.9 / 7 ± 0.3
6.5 / 7 ± 0.2

Spring 2004 Rabaey 6.0 / 7 ± 0.3
6.4 / 7 ± 0.4

Fall 2003 Nikolic 4.8 / 7 ± 1.0
5.6 / 7 ± 0.8

Spring 2003 Section 1 (none)

Spring 2003 Section 2 (none)

Fall 2002 Nikolic 5.2 / 7 ± 0.5
5.5 / 7 ± 0.6

Spring 2002 Rabaey (1/2) 5.7 / 7 ± 0.3
5.5 / 7 ± 0.4

Spring 2002 Vladimirescu (2/2) 3.8 / 7 ± 0.5
5.1 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 2001 Nikolic 4.5 / 7 ± 0.3
5.2 / 7 ± 0.4

Spring 2001 Vladimirescu 3.3 / 7 ± 0.5
4.8 / 7 ± 0.6

Fall 2000 Rabaey 6.1 / 7 ± 0.3
6.3 / 7 ± 0.3

Spring 2000 Neureuther 3.7 / 7 ± 0.6
4.8 / 7 ± 0.6

Fall 1999 Nikolic (1/2) 4.7 / 7 ± 0.5
5.4 / 7 ± 0.4

Fall 1999 Rabaey (2/2) 5.7 / 7 ± 0.5
5.8 / 7 ± 0.4

Spring 1999 Neureuther 4.6 / 7 ± 0.4
3.9 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 1998 Rabaey 6.4 / 7 ± 0.2
6.4 / 7 ± 0.3

Spring 1998 Rabaey 6.1 / 7 ± 0.4
5.9 / 7 ± 0.6

Fall 1997 Section 1 Hodges 4.5 / 7 ± 0.6
5.5 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 1997 Section 2 Hodges 4.5 / 7 ± 0.6
5.5 / 7 ± 0.5

Spring 1997 Rabaey 6.3 / 7 ± 0.3
6.7 / 7 ± 0.1

Fall 1996 Mehra 5.5 / 7 ± 0.6
6.1 / 7 ± 0.5

Spring 1996 Neureuther 4.7 / 7 ± 0.6
5.9 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 1995 Rabaey 6.3 / 7 ± 0.3
6.3 / 7 ± 0.4

Spring 1995 Neureuther 4.8 / 7 ± 0.4
6.0 / 7 ± 0.3

Fall 1994 Rabaey 6.1 / 7 ± 0.2
6.4 / 7 ± 0.2

Spring 1994 Rabaey 6.2 / 7 ± 0.2
6.4 / 7 ± 0.2

Fall 1993 Neureuther 3.9 / 7 ± 0.5
4.9 / 7 ± 0.5

Spring 1993 Verbauwhede 5.3 / 7 ± 0.3
6.0 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 1992 Rabaey 6.2 / 7 ± 0.3
6.3 / 7 ± 0.3

Spring 1992 Senderowicz 2.5 / 7 ± 0.4
3.1 / 7 ± 0.6

Fall 1991 Spanos 5.4 / 7 ± 0.4
6.0 / 7 ± 0.4

Spring 1991 Spanos 4.7 / 7 ± 0.5
5.2 / 7 ± 0.3

Fall 1990 Section 1 Neureuther 5.9 / 7 ± 0.3
5.8 / 7 ± 0.4

Fall 1990 Section 2 Jackson 5.3 / 7 ± 0.4
5.2 / 7 ± 0.4

Spring 1990 Section 1 Spanos 4.3 / 7 ± 0.7
4.7 / 7 ± 0.8

Spring 1990 Section 2 Jackson 5.3 / 7 ± 0.5
5.3 / 7 ± 0.5

Fall 1989 Section 1 Neureuther 4.8 / 7 ± 0.4
5.2 / 7 ± 0.4

Fall 1989 Section 2 Rabaey 5.9 / 7 ± 0.4
5.4 / 7 ± 0.5

Spring 1989 Section 1 Jackson 5.5 / 7 ± 0.3
5.5 / 7 ± 0.4

Spring 1989 Section 2 Spanos 4.8 / 7 ± 0.5
4.9 / 7 ± 0.7

Fall 1988 Section 1 Muller 5.1 / 7 ± 0.6
5.7 / 7 ± 0.6

Fall 1988 Section 2 Rabaey 5.4 / 7 ± 0.3
5.2 / 7 ± 0.4

Overall Rating Teaching Effectiveness How worthwhile was this course?

Electrical Engineering 141 5.2 / 7 ± 0.0
5.7 / 7 ± 0.0

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