COM SCI M258A
Design of VLSI Circuits and Systems
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
(Same as Electrical and Computer Engineering M216A.) Recommended: Electrical and Computer Engineering 115C. LSI/VLSI design and application in computer systems. Fundamental design techniques that can be used to implement complex integrated systems on chips.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course M51A or Electrical and Computer Engineering M16, and Electrical and Computer Engineering 115A.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
COM SCI M258A
- COM SCI M51ALogic Design of Digital Systems
- EC ENGR M16Logic Design of Digital Systems
- EC ENGR 115AAnalog Electronic Circuits I
- EC ENGR 110Circuit Theory II
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
COM SCI M258A
- COM SCI 258HAnalysis and Design of High-Speed VLSI Interconnects
- COM SCI M258CLSI in Computer System Design
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.





