VLSI Design Automation

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour; outside study, seven hours. Requisite: course 115C. Fundamentals of design automation of VLSI circuits and systems, including introduction to circuit and system platforms such as field programmable gate arrays and multicore systems; high-level synthesis, logic synthesis, and technology mapping; physical design; and testing and verification. Letter grading.