Electronics / VLSI Engineering

Semiconductor devices, digital & analog IC design and physical design.

Semiconductor Fundamentals

• Semiconductor Physics
• Diodes & the PN Junction
• Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT)
• MOSFETs & JFETs
• MOSFET Device Physics & Models

Fabrication & Layout

• IC Fabrication Process
• CMOS Technology
• Layout, DRC, LVS & Parasitic Extraction

Digital Logic Foundations

• Logic Gates
• Boolean Algebra & K-Maps
• Combinational Circuits
• Latches & Flip-Flops
• Counters & Registers

CMOS Digital Circuits

• The CMOS Inverter: VTC, Noise Margins, Delay & Power
• Static CMOS Gates, Sizing & Logical Effort
• Digital IC Design
• Arithmetic Circuits: Adders & Multipliers
• SRAM & Memory Design
• Low-Power VLSI Design

Analog & Mixed-Signal IC Design

• Analog IC Building Blocks
• Analog IC Design
• Operational Amplifiers

RTL Design & HDLs

• RTL Design with Verilog
• SystemVerilog & Verification
• Clock-Domain Crossing & Metastability
• FPGA Design

Verification

• Functional Verification & UVM
• Assertions & Formal Verification

Synthesis & Timing

• ASIC Flow & Logic Synthesis
• Static Timing Analysis

Physical Design

• Physical Design
• Floorplanning & Power Planning
• Placement & Optimisation
• Clock-Tree Synthesis (CTS)
• Routing: Global, Track & Detailed
• Sign-off: IR Drop, EM, Crosstalk & Antenna

Design for Test

• Design for Testability (DFT)