Advanced VLSI Design
Unit code: HET6007
| Credit points | 12.5 Credit Points |
| Duration | 1 Semester |
| Contact hours | 48 hours |
| Campus | Hawthorn |
| Prerequisites | |
| Corequisites | Nil |
Related course(s)
Aims and objectives
To expose students to advanced integrated circuit design techniques and methodology and design flow. The students will use modern integrated EDA software to accomplish schematic capture, simulation, layout, extraction, design verification and place and route.Generic skills outcomes
- Graduates are capable in their chosen professional areas.
- Graduates operate effectively in work and community situations.
- Graduates are adaptable and manage change.
Content
- Overview of design flow, requirement specification, configuration management issues
- Design and simulation using industry standard EDA tools
- Use full-custom design tools to generate circuit layout, design rule checking, design verification and simulation. Input/output ports
- Layout generators, parameterised cells, PLA generator, Silicon compilation, Data path Compiler, Placement and routing.
- Clock distribution techniques
- Layout analysis including design rules, DRC, circuit extraction etc
- Equivalence checking
- Simulation: logic simulation, delay modelling, fault simulation.
- Mixed analog/digital system specification, integration issues
- VHDL-AMS
- System-level specification, validation and analysis
- Reusable IP blocks
- System-on-chip (SOC) design issues including software, hardware and IP blocks.
- Design verification and SOC testing and
- Test bench design
