Introduction to Chip Design And Verification

High level description of the course chip design and verification

Sections:

Number System, Gates and optimization, Types of Circuits, State machine & Pipeline

Topics Covered:

Chapter highlights and refreshes digital concepts already taught at Bachelors level  digital electronics course. Topics include binary number system, Two’s complement, sign and magnitude, non-weighted codes, Truth table, boolean expression, logic optimization, combinational circuit, sequential circuit, clock flip-flop, set-up time, hold time, finite state machine, moore and mealy state machine & pipe-line

Sections:

Chip introduction, chip characteristics, chip interfaces, control status registers, Example SOC

Topics Covered:

What is a chip, why a company would develop a chip, chip evolution, comparison of Micro-processor based implementation ASIC & FPGA.

Typical pins in a chip, what is a bus, typical bus interfaces in a chip, CSR registers and example SOC

Section:

Introduction to HDL, Types of HDL, HDL Design, HDL Synthesis

Topics Covered:

Evolution of design, what is HDL, constructs that differentiate a HDL from C, types of HDL coding, basics of digital design using HDL, what is RTL, what is Synthesis, digital design flow using HDL.

Section:

What is Verification, Testing, Checking, Functional Verification

Topics Covered:

What is Verification, importance of verification, how verification is done, types of verification.  Testing in chip making process, checking involved in the chip making flow, what is functional verification, high level description of  functional verification, verification planning, testbench development, simulation, regression, debug, coverage closure.