General Course Outline
• Basics of Power and Energy
• Power Sources for Low-Power Systems
• Overview of CMOS VLSI Technology
• Operation of the MOS Transistor in Strong Inversion
• Operation of the MOS Transistor in Weak Inversion
• MOSFET Models Valid in Strong and Weak Inversion
• CMOS Circuit Building Blocks – Low-Voltage and Low-Current Operation
• Noise in MOS Devices
• Low-Voltage and Low-Current Analog Design
• Low-Power Digital Design
• Scaling Issues
• Theoretical Limits to Power Consumption in Analog and Digital Systems