A modern VLSI chip has a zillion parts -- logic, control, memory, interconnect, etc. How do we design these complex chips? Answer: CAD software tools. Learn how to build thesA modern VLSI chip is a remarkably complex beast: billions of transistors, millions of logic gates deployed for computation and control, big blocks of memory, embedded blocks of pre-designed functions designed by third parties (called “intellectual property” or IP blocks). How do people manage to design these complicated chips? Answer: a sequence of computer aided design (CAD) tools takes an abstract description of the chip, and refines it step-wise to a final design. This class focuses on the major design tools used in the creation of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) or System on Chip (SoC) design. Our focus in this first part of the course is on key Boolean logic representations that make it possible to synthesize, and to verify, the gate-level logic in these designs. This is the first step of the design chain, as we move from logic to layout. Our goal is for students to understand how the tools themselves work, at the level of their fundamental algorithms and data structures. Topics covered will include: Computational Boolean algebra, logic verification, and logic synthesis (2-level and multi-level).
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VLSI CAD Part I: Logic
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbout this Course
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- Boolean Algebra
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Orientation
Computational Boolean Algebra
Boolean Representation via BDDs and SAT
2-Level Logic Synthesis, and Multi-Level Logic Synthesis via the Algebraic Model
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The honor assignment are really great for overall understanding and learning of VLSI cad field.
This course was exceptionally Awesome. Mr. Rutebar is really motivating in terms of explaining the complicated details of the boolean world.
Was cool enough to keep me till the end. That's not usual for me though!
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One of the good course VLSI CAD for fabrication and i successfully completed part 1 thanks to ILLINOIS
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