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The ECE Department at UMaine is a member of the
Cadence University Software Program
which provides students with access to a state-of-the-art integrated circuit design environment. ECE 547, VLSI Design and Layout, teaches the fundamentals of integrated circuit design and allows students to submit custom IC designs
for fabrication through Mosis. Chips designed during this class are fabricated using a half-micron CMOS process.
IC's designed during the Spring '08 semester:
8-bit CMOS Unit-Element Current-Steering Digital-to-Analog Converter IR Receiver Demodulator Broadband 4-Quadrant Analog Mixer
IC's designed during the Spring '07 semester:
Logarithmic Operational Amplifier Low Noise Operational Amplifiers Analog Phase Locked Loop 12-Bit Digital to Analog Converter 8-Bit Current Steering DAC
IC's designed during the Spring '06 semester:
DAC for Direct Digital Synthesizer ROM for Direct Digital Synthesizer Accumulator and ROM Pointer for Direct Digital Synthesizer Accumulator for Direct Digital Synthesizer ROM for Direct Digital Synthesizer DAC for Direct Digital Synthesizer
IC's designed during the Fall '04 semester:
Sequence Generator for RFID Tag Mixer for RFID Tag Phase Locked Loop for RFID Tag Magnetic Sensor for Hearing Aid - version 2
IC's designed during the Fall '03 semester:
400MHz Digital Phase Locked Loop 8 Bit Arithmetic Logic Unit Magnetic Sensor for Hearing Aid
IC's designed during the Fall '02 semester:
Operational Transconductance Amplifier with Telescopic Architecture Class D Audio Amplifier with On-chip H-Bridge 10 Bit, 50MHz, Pipeline A/D Converter IC's designed during the Fall '01 semester:
Adaptive MASH IQ Sigma Delta ADC Pipeline A/D Converter Digital PLL Class D Audio Preamp IC's designed during the Fall '00 semester:
Phase Locked Loop Sigma-Delta Modulator Autoranging Circuit On-chip PID Cntroller Research on high-speed digital IC's and BiCMOS designs using SiGe technology is conducted by David E. Kotecki and Donald M. Hummels in the ECE Department at UMaine.
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