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Affectionately known as DMSD, this unit was taken in 2006 by Dr. GiaParish and Dr. FaridBoussaid. The first half by Gia, covering semiconductor modelling and fabrication techniques, is interesting if you swing that way but is otherwise pretty standard stuff. Labs are in ["MEDICI"] and are marked verbally in the lab - it's easy marks if you have some idea of what's going on. The MEDICI reference manual is in /usr/local/appl/ somewhere and worth paying attention to. Much of the fabrication stuff is also covered in MEMS (a 2nd sem special topics unit).

The other half by Farid is more hands-on. Covering VLSI design, you actually get to design a semiconductor in (virtual) silicon using $500k-software and learn about all of the stuff that matters by actually doing it and testing it. A lot of his slides were duplicated from [:CircuitsAndElectronicSystemsENGT3301:CES329], so if you groked it then, then the learning curve isn't particuarly steep.

The 2006 exam was quite reasonable and along the same lines as the mid-semester tests. If you vaguely enjoyed [:CircuitsAndElectronicSystemsENGT3301:CES329], DMSD is a good choice.

[http://student.ee.uwa.edu.au/units/engt4302 Unit website]

[http://units.uwa.edu.au/elec4302 Handbook entry]


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