Careers in VLSI Design - Digital

Logic Design (LD)/ Logic Verification (LV)/ Design Verification (DV)/ Logic Implementation (LI)/ DFT

PROGRAM INFO(VLSI Design – Digital)

Program Contents LD/ LV/ DV/ LI/ DFT

Common

  • Number systems
  • Combinational circuit designs at gate and functional block level both for functionality and timing
  • Sequential circuit elements, timing and Simple circuit designs for functionality and for timing
  • OS: Unix
  • Programming: C
  • Scripting: PERL/Python, TCL
  • Verilog HDL

Domain specific

  1. Logic Design (LD Domain)
    • Advanced state machine concepts
    • Synchronizers & Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)
    • Design of bigger combinational and sequential functional blocks
    • More complex state machines in Verilog
  2. Logic Verification (LV Domain)/ Design Verification (DV Domain)
    • Programming: C++
    • System Verilog: Classes, constraints, randomization, Assertions, Functional coverage
    • Universal Verification Methodology (UVM): Objects and components, UVM factory, UVM phases
  3. Logic Implementation (LI Domain) / DFT
    • Synthesis: Design Rule Constraints (DRCs), STA for single and multi clock designs, Timing exceptions, Compilation strategies
    • Design For Testability (DFT): Fault models, Scan insertion and Testing, Compression and de-compression, Boundary scan, Hierarchical DFT

Program Logistics

  • Full Time, 6 months, 6 days per week
  • Lecture Sessions 3 hours per day
  • Lab & Design Practice 5 hours per day
  • 8:30am-9:00am: Student preparation
  • 9:00am-10:30am: Morning Lecture
  • 10:30am-01:00pm: lab /Assignment (with Tea Break)
  • 01:00pm-01:30pm: Lunch Break
  • 01:30pm-03:00pm: Afternoon Lecture
  • 03:00pm-06:00pm: lab /Assignment (with Tea Break)