Certificate Course in VLSI Design

Module 1 (Front End)

Digital Electronics, STA, VHDL, Verilog, SIMULATION & SYSTHESIS, PLD
Introduction to Digital Systems, difference between digital and analog design, Basic Gates, Combinational logic design, how to design combination logic, Sequential logic, Synchronous & Asynchronous, FSM, Sequential designs, Mealy & Moore machine, Optimization, projects on FSM Language elements, Expressions, Gate level modeling, User defined primitives Blocking & Non-blocking assignments, Timing controls, File IO, Compiler directives, Delay, Data flow, Behavioral, Structural modelling, Tasks, Functions, Race condition, Verification, Test bench design & stimulus, Verliog and VHDL Synthesis, Coding style, PLI. Introductions to timing static and dynamic hazards, path delay, gate delay, metastability states. Sequential timing delays like set-up time, hold time, maximum frequency, violations, slew, slack. Delay analysis w.r.t. Sequential logic pad to set up, pad to pad, clk to next Reg, Reg to o/p and Reg to Reg. violations wrt sequential circuit. Why synthesis? Synthesis flow-optimization techniques, Verilog syntheses, Synthesis Tips, Guidelines, Pipelining, Register Balancing.

Module 2 ( Verification)

System Verilog, Perl

Traditional verification approaches and issues related to it, The Verilog solution, Introduction to Coverage Driven Verification (CDV) methodology. Classes, Properties, dmethods, Constructors, Data hiding, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, Inheritance, Constrained-Random Generation, Random variables, The randomize () Function, Defining constraints. Coverage & assertions with tool related Scripting language PERL.

Course Duration

The Course duration is 240 hrs. - 60 Working Days (inclusive of Project)

................................................................................................................................................................................................

| Online Enquiry |                                                                                                       | Download Course Catalogue |