VLSI CAD Engineering

Catalog description

This course will provide essential skills in CMOS Layout Design, Parasitic Extraction and Verification, Interconnect Design and modeling, design and hardware verification and logic synthesis. The course will introduce numerous industry-grade computer-aided design (CAD) tools used to facilitate the design, verification and analysis of complex VLSI circuits and systems. Interconnect challenges and future solutions to scaling induced problems will also be provided.