ECE-529
DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIR
Not in Fall 2026
Term
Overview
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
DepartmentELEC&CMP
Terms offeredSpring
Typical enrollment9–10
Semesters of data2
5.6
Hrs / week
12
Responses
19
Enrollment
63%
Response Rate
Evaluation Scores
Overall quality
Teaching, content, and experience combined.
4.2
Intellectually stimulating
Challenges students to think deeply.
4.2
Instructor effectiveness
Explains concepts and facilitates learning.
4.3
Difficulty
Higher means harder.
3.2
Feedback Analysis
Feedback Analysismedium
Analysis based on student evaluations
Based on 34 comments across 2 sections
Feedback is mostly positive. The strongest signal is that students generally rate the course well. Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
Student Reports
How hard is the A?
A is doable but not automatic
The signal here is more do-the-work-and-you-should-be-fine than easy-A chatter. Students do not describe the A as automatic, but the evidence also does not paint grading as punishing.
Homework Load
Moderate homework load
Homework load looks moderate. The recurring signal is steady weekly work, but not a course that turns every assignment into a grind.
Lecture Load
Regular lecture load
Lectures matter here, but the evidence points to a fairly standard lecture burden rather than a course dominated by long or exceptionally dense lectures.
Strengths
• Instructor ratings are strong even when the comments do not cluster around one obvious positive theme.
Tradeoffs
• There is no single dominant complaint theme, but the feedback is not uniformly glowing either.
Best fit for
Best for students who are genuinely interested in the topic and willing to engage with the course on its own terms.
Watch out for
• A large share of the evidence comes from one instructor's version of the course, so this may not generalize cleanly.
Student Responses
- I did not have a strong circuits background prior to taking this course (basic analog design, some advanced digital design, basic microelectronics) and I feel that my foundational knowledge in device characteristics and modeling improved significantly. - I learned many insights into the fabrication of integrated circuits, including techniques, challenges and limitations. - I gained intuition on the tradeoffs in integrated circuit design, such as performance vs. power.
Spring 2024 · Massoud, Hisham
I learned about the fundamentals of hardware devices, some common circuits built with CMOS devices and relevant considerations when designing circuits, finally I also developed an insight into device physics and fabrication.
Spring 2024 · Massoud, Hisham
The use of hspice is very helpful. Basic understanding on fundamental transistor.
Spring 2024 · Massoud, Hisham
- Device modeling in CMOS beyond the basics including short channel effects - Design considerations and methodologies for CMOS logic circuits including static logic, dynamic logic, and logical effort - Memory design topologies and circuits
Spring 2024 · Massoud, Hisham
Basic knowledge of integrated digital circuits, deep modeling of MOSFET, and knowledge of SRAM / DRAM memory
Spring 2024 · Massoud, Hisham
Rating History
Rating history
Error bars show \u00B11 std dev
| Term | Instructor | Overall | Difficulty | Hrs/wk | Enrolled |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2025 | Massoud, Hisham 3.1Rate My ProfessorsQuality3.1Difficulty3.9Would retake35%Based on 40 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.2 | 3.2 | 6.6 | 10 |
| Spring 2024 | Massoud, Hisham 3.1Rate My ProfessorsQuality3.1Difficulty3.9Would retake35%Based on 40 ratingsClick to view on RMP → | 4.1 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 9 |
Instructor
Massoud, HishamELEC&CMP
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