Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Certificate

Post Graduate Certificate in VLSI Design

Advance your career in the field of electronics engineering and develop industry-relevant skills. The 6 month programme enables students and professionals, to develop VLSI chip designing capabilities that can power new-age technologies like AI, IoT, VR, Mobility, Cloud, and Analytics.

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6 months

8-10 hours per week. May vary by student.

$1,500 / INR 1,12,500

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IIM-K-VLSI-Design

Program description

Earn a post graduate certificate from a leading technical institution while developing essential skills in VLSI chip design.

Overview

With worldwide semiconductor revenue reaching $450 Billion in 2020, there is a need to design and produce highly efficient and specialized chips.

The Post Graduate Certificate in VLSI Design enables professionals to develop VLSI chip designing capabilities that can power new-age technologies like AI, IoT, VR, mobility, cloud, and analytics.

The Department of Electronics Engineering at IIT Roorkee, with its pioneering and ongoing research and training in Microelectronics and VLSI, is ideally positioned to offer this program. The programme is ideal for VLSI industry professionals who want to leverage expertise of modern tools and technologies.

Required background

A basic knowledge of circuits, electrical networks, and semiconductor devices is required to enroll in this program.

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In case you missed it, the Live Q&A session with the faculty on September 10th is now available to watch. Learn more about the certificate,the curriculum, and learning outcomes directly from the faculty in this video.

Skills you will gain

  • MOS device physics
  • Digital system design
  • Analog system design
  • VLSI circuits
  • CMOS circuits
  • VLSI design
  • EDA tools
  • Embedded design
  • Analog signal design
  • VLSI analysis
  • Mixed signal design
  • Circuit simulation
  • Physical design
  • VLSI layout

5 required courses in this 6 month program

Course 1 of 6

MOS Device Physics

Overview

In this course, you will focus on reinforcing your fundamental understanding on MOS technology. You will explore band diagrams as an approach to device physics, build your understanding on MOS capacitors as two terminal devices, and gain an in-depth introduction to advanced FETs and its applications.

Course 2 of 6

Digital VLSI Circuit Design

Overview

In this course, you will focus on digital VLSI circuit design. You'll begin the course by exploring CMOS inverter characteristics and noise margins. You will then dive into CMOS-based combinational and sequential logic design characteristics, followed by memory and array architecture.

Course 3 of 6

Analog VLSI Circuit Design

Overview

In this course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of analog VLSI circuit design as you explore CMOS-based single stage and differential amplifiers. You will then learn about the design and applications of operational amplifiers, voltage controlled oscillators, and phase locked loops.

Course 4 of 6

Digital System Design (FPGA based design)

Overview

In this course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of digital system design by focusing on FPGA-based design. You'll then explore hardware description language (HDL)-based designs, static timing analysis (STA), pipelining, and parallel processing architectures.

Course 5 of 6

Mixed Signal Design (Elective)

Overview

In this elective course, you will dive into the world of mixed signal design by focusing on switched capacitor circuits, sampling and aliasing, data converters, and integrator-based CMOS filters.

Course 6 of 6

Emerging Technologies: Accelerators for AI (Elective)

Overview

In this elective course, you will learn about a key emerging technology, namely, accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI). You will learn the fundamentals of AI accelerator design and optimization techniques such as approximate computing, pruning and quantization. Further, you will learn about well-known commercial accelerators such as those from Google, Microsoft and NVIDIA. The computing platforms of the accelerators discussed will range from smartphone (e.g., Facebook App), embedded systems (e.g., NVIDIA Jetson) to data-center (Google’s tensor processing unit, and Microsoft’s Brainwave).

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Frequently asked questions

If you need further assistance, please email vlsicoursera@ece.iitr.ac.in with any questions.