Teaching advanced digital ASIC designs by a complex case study

Author

Boussadi, Mohamed Amine ; Tixier, Thierry ; Landrault, Alexis ; Derutin, Jean-Pierre

Author_Institution

Inst. Pascal, UBP, Aubiere, France

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 May 2014

Firstpage

112

Lastpage

115

Abstract

Many previous works have introduced courses on necessary design steps for a basic knowledge of the digital ASIC design flow. This paper intends to introduce a series of labs focusing on ASIC design flow on a complex case study. Indeed, many difficult aspects of the ASIC flow only appear with complex design. This course enables teaching modern and industrial advanced digital ASIC design methodologies in a university environment with a deep-submicron technology node (CMOS 65nm from ST-microelectronics). As a result of this gradual and coherent training, students gain skills that allow them to undertake large and complex ASIC design project.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; educational courses; electronic engineering education; integrated circuit design; teaching; CMOS process; ST-microelectronics; complex ASIC design project; deep-submicron technology node; industrial advanced digital ASIC design teaching methodology; size 65 nm; university environment; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Clocks; Computers; Educational institutions; Hardware design languages; ASIC flow; FPGA prototyping; complex design; design kit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronics Education (EWME), 10th European Workshop on

Conference_Location

Tallinn

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EWME.2014.6877407

Filename

6877407