Course Description

Course CodeCourse NameCreditsHours
3604103 Digital integrated circuit back-end design 3.0 3
Description This course is trained the student to understand back-end IC design flow. Therefore, the student has the design capability of advanced IC. The contents of this course: 1. Design Flow Overview 2. RTL Design in Verilog 3. Basic placement & routing 4. Post Layout Simulation 5. LVS & DRC & ERC 6. Time-Mill and Power-Mill Post Layout Simulation 7. Module Compiler 8. Physical Compiler 9. Clock Tree Synthesis, Zero Skew Routing 10. Scan Chain Optimization/Reordering 11. Constraint driven placement &routing 12. Buffer/wire sizing 13. Cell library creation 14. Verilog code design 15. Pre_simulation 16. LVS & DRC & ERC Flow 17. Time-Mill and Power-Mill Post Layout Simulation Flow 18. Design examples 19. placement &routing flow