CMOS & FPGA Design Flow Training

• Differentiate among different technologies say NMOS, PMOS, CMOS
• Understand the details of CMOS
• Design exercise using CMOS
• Fabrication flows and fundamentals
• Architectures of XILINX, ALTERA Devices
• Architecture based coding and constraints based synthesis
• Use industry standard tools

• Final year students of electronics engineering courses
• Processionals from VLSI domain
• Professionals aspire to change their job profile from frontend to backend
• Professionals willing to switch the domain

Module 1: Introduction to VLSI Module 2: CMOS

Module 2: CMOS

• MOS Fundamentals and Characterization
• NMOS/PMOS/CMOS Technologies
• Fabrication Principles
• Different Styles of Fabrication for NMOS/PMOS/CMOS
• Design with CMOS Gates
• Characterization of CMOS Circuits
• Scaling Effects
• Sub-Micron Designs
• Parasitic Extraction and Calculations
• Subsystem Design
• Layout Representation for CMOS Circuits
• Design Exercise using CMOS
• Introduction of IC Design
• Different Methodologies for IC Design
• Fabrication Flows and Fundamentals

Module 3: FPGA Flow

• Re-configurable Devices, FPGA’s/CPLD’s
• Architectures of XILINX, ALTERA Devices
• Designing with FPGAs
• FPGA’s and its Design Flows
• Architecture based coding
• Efficient resource utilization
• Constrains based synthesis
• False paths and multi cycle paths
• UCF file creation
• Timing analysis/Floor Planning
• Place and route/RPM
• Back annotation, Gate level simulation, SDF Format
• DSP on FPGA
• Writing Scripts
• Hands on experience with industry Standard Tools
• ASIC Flow

Module 4: Project Software Package

• Xilinx ISE