2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Special Seminar on Semiconductor Memory

Academic unit or major: Graduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instructor(s): Hitoshi Wakabayashi
Class Format: Lecture
Media-enhanced courses: -
Day of week/Period (Classrooms)
Class: -
Course Code: EEE.D442
Number of credits: 100
Course offered: 2025
Offered quarter: 3Q
Syllabus updated: Jun 24, 2025
Language: English

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

In electrical/electronic engineering and information/communication engineering, it is important to understand the semiconductor memory technology to support the current electronics industry. Specific topics of lectures relate to semiconductor memory circuits, structures, manufacturing methods, design technology, testing technology, reliability, packaging technology and their production methods will be discussed to comprehensively understand.

Course description and aims

[Target] To understand the semiconductor memory to support the current electronics industry. In addition, we aim to be able to apply to the actual memory circuit design.
[Theme] In this lecture on semiconductor memory circuits, their structures, production method, design technology, test technology, reliability, packaging technology and their production methods will be discussed to comprehensively understand for the foundamental on the electrical/electronic engineering and information communication engineering.
Corresponding educational goals are:
(1) Specialist skills: Fundamental specialist skills
(4) Applied skills (inquisitive thinking and/or problem-finding skills) Organization and analysis
(7) Skills acquiring a wide range of expertise, and expanding it into more advanced and other specialized areas

Student learning outcomes

実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)

Lectures by engineers in Micron Memory Japan, K.K.

Keywords

Semiconductor memory device, DRAM, NAND, TSV, circuit-design, device technology, process technology

Competencies

Specialist skills
Intercultural skills
Communication skills
Critical thinking skills
Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Lectures in-person are given by experts of semiconductor memories in the fields of circuit design, development of device and process, and manufacture engineering.

Course schedule/Objectives

	Course schedule	Objectives
Class 1	Overview of Semiconductor Memories: Technology, Economy, Industry and Future Growth	Report
Class 2	DRAM Circuit Design	Report
Class 3	DRAM device technology and Chip Stack technology	Report
Class 4	Semiconductor Memory Process Technologies	Report
Class 5	NAND Flash Technology	Report
Class 6	Manufacturing Technology and Engineering for Advanced DRAM	Report
Class 7	Smart Manufacturing of Semiconductor Memory using Big Data	Report

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

None

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Taur and Ning: Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices (ISBN: 978-4621085813)
Sze: Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology (ISBN: 978-4782855508)
Texts by each lecturer

Evaluation methods and criteria

Reports for each lectures: 100%

Related courses

EEE.C441 ： VLSI Technology I
EEE.C442 ： VLSI Technology II
EEE.D411 ： Semiconductor Physics
EEE.D452 ： Special Topics on Semiconductor Devices and Applications

Prerequisites

It is desirable to take an undergraduate lecture on semiconductor devices and electronic circuits.

Other

Class 1: Tetsuya Taguwa; Class 2: Hiroki Fujisawa; Class 3: Toshihiko Miyashita, Shiro Uchiyama; Class 4: Kazuyoshi Yoshida; Class 5: Akira Goda, Tomoharu Tanaka; Class 6: Yasuhiro Nariyoshi; Class 7: Hideki Matsuhashi; all from Micron Memory Japan, G.K.