Course Catalog 2009-2010 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Olli Vainio

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

Exam and compulsory exercise work.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

To learn post-synthesis (backend) design of ASICs.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Transistors, wires, and parasitic components in ICs.
2.	Floorplanning, clock tree generation, supply wiring, and the nonidealities therein.
3.	Placement and routing of standard cells, netlist extraction, backannotation.
4.	Cell design and optimization, timing issues, memory cell design.
5.	Large system chips.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective	J.M. Rabaey, A. Chandrakasan, B. Nicolic	0-13-120764-4		2nd edition		English
Online book	Application-Specific Integrated Circuits	M. J. S. Smith	0-201-50022-1		http://www.edacafe.com/books/ASIC/ASICs.php		English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Additional information

The course is given only every other year.

Last modified	24.04.2009
Modifier	Olli Vainio