Digital VLSI Design flow comprises three basic phases: Design, Verification and Test. The video course would cover theoretical, implementation and CAD tools pertaining to these three phases. Although there can be individual full courses for each of these phases, the present course aims at covering the important problems/algorithms/tools so that students get a comprehensive idea of the whole digital VLSI design flow.
VLSI Design: High level Synthesis, Verilog RTL Design, Combinational and Sequential Synthesis Logic Synthesis (for large circuits).
Verification Techniques: Introduction to Hardware Verification and methodologies, Binary Decision Diagrams(BDDs) and algorithms over BDDs, Combinational equivalence checking, Temporal Logics, Modeling sequential systems and model checking, Symbolic model checking.
VLSI Testing: Introduction, Fault models, Fault Simulation, Test generation for combinational circuits, Test generation algorithms for sequential circuits and Built in Self test.
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1.
Design
Module I: Introduction
Lecture I: Introduction to Digital VLSI Design Flow
Lecture II: High Level Design Representation
Lecture III: Transformations for High Level Synthesis
Module II: Scheduling, Allocation and Binding
Lecture I: Introduction to HLS: Scheduling, Allocation and Binding Problem
Lecture II and III: Scheduling Algorithms
Lecture IV: Binding and Allocation Algorithms
. Module III: Logic Optimization and Synthesis
Lecture I,II and III: Two level Boolean Logic Synthesis
Lecture IV: Heuristic Minimization of Two-Level Circuits
Lecture V: Finite State Machine Synthesis
Lecture VI: Multilevel Implementation
2.
Verification
Module - IV: Temporal Logic
Lecture-I: Introduction to formal methods for verification
Lecture-II: Temporal Logic: Introduction and Basic Operators
Lecture-III: Syntax and Semantics of CTL
Lecture IV: Equivalence between CTL Formulas
Module - V: Binary Decision Diagram
Lecture-I: Binary Decision Diagram: Introduction and construction
Lecture-II: Ordered Binary Decision Diagram
Lecture-III: Operations on Ordered Binary Decision Diagram
Lecture-IV: Ordered Binary Decision Diagram for Sequential Circuits
Module-VI: Verification Techniques
Lecture-I: Introduction to Verification Techniques
Lecture-II and III: Model Checking
Lecture-IV and V: Symbolic Model Checking
3.
Test
Module VII: Introduction to Digital Testing
Lecture-I: Introduction to Digital VLSI Testing
Lecture-II: Functional and Structural Testing
Lecture-III: Fault Equivalence
Module VIII: Fault Simulation and Testability Measures
Lecture-I, II and III: Fault Simulation
Lecture-IV: Testability Measures (SCOAP)
Module IX: Combinational Circuit Test Pattern Generation
Lecture-I: Introduction to Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) and ATPG
Algebras
Lecture-II and III: D-Algorithm
Module X: Sequential Circuit Testing and Scan Chains
Lecture-I: ATPG for Synchronous Sequential Circuits
Lecture-II and III: Scan Chain based Sequential Circuit Testing
Module XI: Built in Self test (BIST)
Lecture I and II: Built in Self Test
Lecture III and IV: Memory Testing
Digital Design
Algorithm
Automata Theory (Basics)
D. D. Gajski, N. D. Dutt, A.C.-H. Wu and S.Y.-L. Lin, High-Level Synthesis: Introduction to Chip and System Design, Springer, 1st edition, 1992.
S. Palnitkar, Verilog HDL: A Guide to Digital Design and Synthesis, Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 2003.
G. De Micheli. Synthesis and optimization of digital circuits, 1st edition, 1994.
M. Huth and M. Ryan, Logic in Computer Science modeling and reasoning about systems, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, 2004
Bushnell and Agrawal, Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory & Mixed-Signal Circuits, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000
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