INTRODUCTION TO VLSI METHODOLOGIES: VLSI Physical
Design Automation - Design and Fabrication of VLSI Devices - Fabrication
process and its impact on Physical Design.
UNIT – III and IV
A QUICK TOUR OF VLSI DESIGN AUTOMATION TOOLS: Data
structures and Basic Algorithms, Algorithmic Graph theory and
computational complexity, Tractable and Intractable problems.
PART – B
UNIT – V and VI
GENERAL PURPOSE METHODS FOR COMBINATIONAL
OPTIMIZATION: partitioning, floor planning and pin assignment,
placement, routing.
UNIT – VII and VIII
SIMULATION-LOGIC SYNTHESIS: Verification-High level synthesis -
Compaction. Physical Design Automation of FPGAs, MCMS-VHDLVerilog-
Implementation of Simple circuits using VHDL and Verilog.
REFERENCE
Reference Books
1. “Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation”, N. A.
Shervani, 1999.
2. “Algorithms for VLSI Design Automation”, S. H. Gerez, 1998.