CATALOG DESCRIPTION : Basic concepts in VLSI CAD with emphasis on physical design, fundamental algorithms for CAD problems, development of CAD tools. REQUIRED TEXT: Andrew B. Kahng, Jens Lienig, Igor ...

VLSI or Very Large Scale Integration has emerged as a crucial field in electronics engineering over the past few years. With the manufacture of complex integrated circuits (ICs) with millions of ...

Design of CMOS digital integrated circuits, concentrating on device, circuit, and architectural issues. Analysis and design techniques in custom integrated circuit design, standard cells, memory. Use ...

In this paper, the authors discuss the design of an Integrated Circuit (IC) layout for a decoder. The layout was designed by using an open source software namely electric VLSI design system as the ...

“With the improvement of VLSI technology, on-chip power grid design is becoming more challenging than before. In this design phase of VLSI CAD, power grids are generated in order to make power and ...