E&C ENGR 447: Introduction to Application-Specific Integrated Circuit Physical Design and Testing

Course Description

This course focuses on physical implementation of Application Specific Integrated Circuits. This is a hands-on and lab-driven course where students go through lab experiments in order to go from RTL to GDSII. Students learn to implement their own design from scratch to be implemented in a chip. The main topics to be covered in this course are environmental setup, RTL Design, and Netlist to GDSII, including Floor planning, Placement, power planning, scan chain reordering, global routing, clock tree synthesis, power analysis and ECO.