EC ENGR M216A
Design of VLSI Circuits and Systems
Description: (Same as Computer Science M258A.) Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, four hours; outside study, two hours. Requisites: courses M16 or Computer Science M51A, and 115A. Recommended: course 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.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Fall 2023 - This is an important class in circuit design. Do not however take this class. When it comes time to final grades, he purposely does not post them till after New Year so he does not get regrade requests or questions about the grades. He also has very open ended final exam questions which when you point them out to him he gets mad and says "your job to study my job to grade." when you point out the ambiguities or that your answer is valid. He tells us one thing in class and then does what he wants and denies it. For the project, he said to us in class that passing the testbench should be fine, but later penalized us for something that his test bench was not set up to check at any time. He is not a good professor and shows disregard to the hard work that the students do with his ruthless grading mentality at the end. He has done this in multiple Fall quarters and after the GPA hit people get from it they dont want to take 216B with him.
Fall 2023 - This is an important class in circuit design. Do not however take this class. When it comes time to final grades, he purposely does not post them till after New Year so he does not get regrade requests or questions about the grades. He also has very open ended final exam questions which when you point them out to him he gets mad and says "your job to study my job to grade." when you point out the ambiguities or that your answer is valid. He tells us one thing in class and then does what he wants and denies it. For the project, he said to us in class that passing the testbench should be fine, but later penalized us for something that his test bench was not set up to check at any time. He is not a good professor and shows disregard to the hard work that the students do with his ruthless grading mentality at the end. He has done this in multiple Fall quarters and after the GPA hit people get from it they dont want to take 216B with him.
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pro: Ken Yang is a very nice guy, knowledgable professor. cons: 1. He scanned through a hundred slices in one and a half hour, with brief/no explanation, with soft voice. I got lost after 30 mins of lecture. 2. He doesn't care too much about students besides teaching. He is not responsive on the questions in Piazza (class forum for students to ask question). 3. His grading is not fare, tests and homework does not reflect to the lecture. Conclusion: Nah~! please try to avoid him. He is the second worst EE professor in UCLA. The worst one is Jason Woo who is his friend. If you have to take him, GOOD LUCK!
pro: Ken Yang is a very nice guy, knowledgable professor. cons: 1. He scanned through a hundred slices in one and a half hour, with brief/no explanation, with soft voice. I got lost after 30 mins of lecture. 2. He doesn't care too much about students besides teaching. He is not responsive on the questions in Piazza (class forum for students to ask question). 3. His grading is not fare, tests and homework does not reflect to the lecture. Conclusion: Nah~! please try to avoid him. He is the second worst EE professor in UCLA. The worst one is Jason Woo who is his friend. If you have to take him, GOOD LUCK!
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