IC Design from Beginner to Master

Digital Design & Chip Foundations · 40 illustrated lessons (text/HTML)

Outcomes

• Explain how a digital or analog block becomes silicon
• Plan physical design, timing sign-off and power analysis
• Position yourself for IC design, verification or DFT roles

Where we teach this

• ICD-101 · IC Design & Silicon Foundations live cohort

The lessons

Every lesson in this curriculum, in the order we teach it.

• 1IC design overview
• 2Semiconductor physics basics
• 3Digital circuit basics
• 4Analog circuit basics
• 5EDA tools overview
• 6Verilog HDL basics
• 7Advanced Verilog: behavioural and structural modelling, tasks and functions
• 8VHDL language basics
• 9Introduction to SystemVerilog
• 10Digital circuit design methods
• 11Combinational logic design
• 12Sequential logic design
• 13Synchronous circuit design
• 14Asynchronous circuit design
• 15Memory design
• 16Low-power design techniques
• 17Design for testability
• 18Analog IC design basics
• 19Data converters: ADC and DAC principles and design
• 20PLL design: phase-locked loop principles, VCO design and dividers
• 21Layout design basics
• 22Digital circuit layout design
• 23Analog circuit layout design
• 24Mixed-signal layout design
• 25Physical verification: DRC, LVS and ERC checks
• 26Parasitic extraction
• 27Timing analysis: setup and hold times, and fixing timing violations
• 28Power analysis
• 29Signal integrity: crosstalk, electromagnetic interference and power integrity
• 30DFM: process variation, redundancy design and yield improvement
• 31Packaging technology
• 32IC test technology
• 33FPGA prototyping
• 34ASIC flow in practice: RTL to GDSII
• 35IP core design: specification, interfaces and documentation
• 36SoC design: system architecture, bus design and IP integration
• 37The UVM verification methodology
• 38Advanced verification techniques
• 39Project: a complete chip-design case study
• 40IC design career guide