CIS 778: Computer Aided Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits

VLSI design methodology; specification of VLSI circuits at various levels of abstraction; design, layout and computer simulation of circuits; high-level synthesis; design projects.

Mastery of CMOS digital VLSI design principles
Mastery of the use of CAD tools for the design and verification of digital VLSI circuits
Mastery of designing a digital system, starting from a high-level description to develop a VLSI layout specification for the circuit

Principles of CMOS VLSI Design - A Systems Perspective}, 2nd Edition, by Neil Weste and Kamran Eshraghian, Addison Wesley, 1993.

No. of Wks.	Topics
1	CMOS Circuits
2	Switch level logic simulation using IRSIM
1	CMOS device characteristics; CMOS process technology
1	CMOS layout using MAGIC
2	First-order timing models; Transistor sizing
1	CMOS storage elements; Clocked circuits: Dynamic logic
1	Hardware Description Languages; Verilog
1	CMOS sub-system examples