Advanced Digital Integrated Circuit Design

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This course covers techniques for high-performance, low power and reliability in digital integrated circuit design from a systems perspective. Emphasis will be on the most important design challenges, being the impact of scaling, interconnect, signal integrity, power and timing. Presentation and term paper based on current research articles is required. Laboratory assignments are based on real time applications. Design process starting from logic synthesis down to layout synthesis will be covered in the laboratory, with industry standard CAD tools.