ASIC Design Methodology

ASIC Design Methodology

School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (SEECS),
National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST),
Sector H-12, Islamabad 44000,
Pakistan

Instructor: Dr. Osman Hasan

Office Hours: By Appointment

Course Description:

The course gives an introduction to the design and analysis of Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The main focus would be on the VLSI design issues, logic and physical synthesis, verification and testing.

Text Books

M.J.S. Smith, “Application-Specific Integrated Circuits”, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-50022-1, 1997
HimanshuBhatnagar, “Advanced ASIC Chip Synthesis Using Synopsys Design Compiler Physical Compiler and PrimeTime”. 2001
N. H. E. Weste and D. Harris, “CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective”, 3rd Edition Addison-Wesley, 2004
J. Rabaey , A. Chandrakasan , B. Nikolic , “Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective” 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003
W. Wolf, “Modern VLSI Design: System-on-Chip Design”, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002
Thoman Kropf, Formal Hardware Verification, Springer 1999.