IIT 329 — INTRODUCTION TO VLSI DESIGN (CUR-114)

Summary 🟢 ✓

• Resource type: course
• Owner Unit: Illinois Institute of Technology (Engineering)
• College/School: IIT Partnership
• Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
• Catalog: IIT 329
• Last Verified: 2026-05-28

Course access

• Level: green (Open Enrollment)
• Rationale: No formal prerequisites listed in catalog description; open to any student meeting university registration rules.
• Prerequisites: None listed in catalog description

Verification

• Status: verified_catalog_course (✓)
• Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
• Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
• Last verified: 2026-05-28

Catalog description

Processing, fabrication, and design of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits. MOS transistor theory, VLSI processing, circuit layout, layout design rules, layout analysis, and performance estimation. The use of computer-aided design (CAD) tools for layout design, system design in VLSI, and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). In the laboratory, students create, analyze, and simulate a number of circuit layouts as design projects, culminating in a term design project. (Taught at IIT as ECE 429) (6 quarter hours)

Hardware relevance

Hands-on labs, fabrication, instrumentation, or physical production technology described in the official catalog course description.

Documented resource links

EXT-016

• Relationship: taught_at_partner
• Rationale: DePaul catalog lists this course as taught at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) under the DePaul–IIT joint engineering programs.
• Source URLs:
• catalog.depaul.edu/student-handbooks/undergraduate/univers…
• www.iit.edu/ugaa/joint-programs/depaul-university
• catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/iit
• Resource page: EXT-016

Notes

Catalog course key: IIT 329. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.