Curriculum

Program details of M.Tech. in VLSI and Embedded System

Objective

Acquire competency in areas of VLSI and Embedded System, hardware coding, testing, verification and application specific prototype development.

Design and generate GDS files for digital, analog and mixed signal integrated circuits using appropriate EDA tools, computational techniques, algorithms and develop testing methods.

Integrate multiple sub-systems to develop System-On-Chip, optimize its performance and learn industry standards related to VLSI / Embedded system design.

Design low power and improved performance digital/analog VLSI architectures and implement them on ASIC/FPGA platforms

Learning recent developments in engineering problems through extensive literature survey and experiments, apply appropriate research methodologies, techniques and tools, design, conduct experiments, analyze, write reports and present the work effectively to demonstrate higher order skill thorough seminars and year long projects.

After completing this course, students will be able to

Identify, characterize, model and offer solutions to issues related to IC design.

Understand the recent advances in the VLSI technologies.

Identify design requirements of analog and mixed signal circuits.

Design low power digital integrated circuits.

Develop efficient architectures for improving system performance in terms of speed, area, power consumption, and accuracy.

Perform all design functions using EDA tools.

Specify appropriate physical design automation algorithm meeting system requirements.

Develop test strategies suitable for the integrated circuits in analog and mixed signal domain.

Communicate technical material through formal written reports satisfying accepted standards of writing style while adopting professional ethics.