Custom Layout Training
Custom layout Basic and adavanced training is 8 months course targeted for experienced engineers, BTech, BE, MTech, ME and diploma graduates planning to make career as a layout design engineer in…
- 174 HoursCourse Duration
- 55 SessionsRecorded & Live
- 4.6/5Learner Rating
- 3000Enrolled Learners
Course Overview
About Course
Custom layout Basic and adavanced training is 8 months course targeted for experienced engineers, BTech, BE, MTech, ME and diploma graduates planning to make career as a layout design engineer in various aspects of layout including analog layout, memory layout, standard cell layout and io layout. Custom layout design course ensures that a fresher/experienced engineer is prepared on all the essential aspects of Custom layout including ASIC flow, VLSI Design flow, Digital Design concepts, CMOS basics, FinFET basics, various memory architectures, Standard cell, IO's and detailed analog layout techniques. Course also includes training on UNIX, revision management, scripting and soft skill for effective interview performance.
Majority of graduates lack good foundation in digital and analog design concepts, make them under prepared for industry requirements. Custom layout training will enable the candidate for job opportunities within 3 months from the start of course. Complete 5 months training ensures that the candidate is an expert in the domain.
Course includes 20+ detailed labs & assignments covering all aspects of custom layout with multiple hands on projects.
Course starts with detailed sessions on semiconductors, Ohms law, Kirchoff law's, Diode-operation, MOSFET's, MOSEFT operations, second order effects, FinFET's, and detailed fabrication process, which is followed by assignments and hands on projects.
Course will also include detailed sessions on layout basics, hands on standard cell layouts, IO layout and memory layout for different architectures. Followed by various analog layout techniques with detailed discussion on Mismatches & Matching, Noises & Coupling, various failure mechanisms which includes Electro migration, IR drop, LOD & Stress effects, WPE, Antenna Effects, Latch up, ESD.
Analog layout techniques will involve multiple hands on projects covering various concepts such as common centroid, inter digitation, resistor matching, capacitor matching and opamp circuits, current mirrors, PLL's, ADC's, DAC's, Bandgap, Temperature sensors & Biases -> Current & Voltage bias lines, Large drivers, LNA & Mixers, and Sense amplifier & Bit cell development.
Detailed Syllabus
11 modules- Specification
- RTL coding, lint checks
- RTL integration
- Connectivity checks
- Functional Verification
- Synthesis & STA
- Gate level simulations
- Power aware simulations
- Placement and Routing
- DFT
- Custom layout
- Post silicon validation
- Digital Design basics
- combinational logic
- sequential logic, FF, latch, counters
- Memories
- Refer to Advanced digital design training page for detailed course contents
- www.vlsiguru.com/digital-design-complete
- Linux/UNIX OS, Shell
- Working with files, directories
- Commonly used commands
- Conductor, Semiconductor & Insulators -> Intrinsic & Extrinsic Semiconductor
- Basic Passive and Active devices
- Ohms law, Kirchoff laws
- Basic of circuit understanding
- MOSFET Basics, Operations, few simple circuits & second order effects.
- MOSFET Detailed fabrication process.
- FinFET working, Fabrication, advantages & disadvantages.
- Layout Editor Tool
- Understanding the schematic symbols and parameters
- Creating and managing libraries and cell
- Commands for Layout editing.
- Commands for schematic editing.
- Verification : DRC and LVS
- Antenna effect, latchup, Electromigration, IR Drop
- Analog Layout of OpAmp, Current Mirror, PLL, ADC, and DAC
- Resistor, Capacitor layout techniques
- CMOS and BiCMOS layout techniques
- Standard Cell Layout : Inverter, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, AOI, OAI, Latches, and Flop
- Mismatches & Matching.
- Failure Mechanism : Electro migration, IR drop, LOD & Stress effects, WPE, Antenna Effects, Latch up, ESD (with High voltage rules, EOS effects).
- Noises & Coupling.
- Different Types of process - Advantages & Disadvantages - Planar CMOS, FD-SOI, SOI, Bi-CMOS, Gallium Arsenide, Silicon-Germanium, Finfet.
- Full Chip Construction, Scribe Seal, Pad Frame, Integration and guidelines.
- Packaging
- Std Cell & Memories.
- IO Layout Guidelines : High speed IOs and High Speed Interfaces.
- Sense amplifier & Bit cell development
- Why memory layout different than analog layout
- Memory layout flow
- Types of memory layout (SRAM/DRAM/ROM)
- Introduction to SRAM memory layout
- Fixing few manually created leaf-cell errors which impact
- Abutment issues
- SRAM memory design architecture
- Words line and address line
- SRAM rows and column design
- Building blocks of SRAM
- Memory Bit cell
- Row decoder
- Word line driver
- Sense amplifier
- Control block
- Misc digital logic.
- Pitch Calculation for blocks.
- Power Planning
- High speed Analog Layout
- RF Layout guidelines with Transmission lines and inductor concepts
- Handling clocks
- Analog Circuits & Layout guidelines
- Single & Multi stage differential opamp layout
- current mirror layout
- PLL, DLL and Oscillators
- LDO and other regulators
- ADCs & DACs
- Bandgap, Temperature sensors & Biases -> Current & Voltage bias lines
- Large drivers.
- LNA & Mixers.
- input pair, differential routing, Power routing, offset minimizing
- Power/Signal IR Drop
- cross-talk and coupling
- Electrostatic Discharge
- Deep Submicron Layout Issues
- Shallow Trench Isolation (LOD)
- Well Proximity Effect.
- Design Rule Checks
- Layout Versus Schematic (LVS)
- Electrical Rule Checks (ERC)
- Antenna Checks
- Latch-up
- Reliability checks like EM and IR analysis
- Design for manufacturability (DFM)checks
- Electrostatic discharge (ESD) path checks
- Assignments and multiple hands on projects
- Best Practices & Interview Questions.
Session-wise Content
55 sessions- 1Network theory-1
- 2Network theory-2
- 3Network theory-3
- 4Network theory-4
- 5CMOS Introduction-1
- 6CMOS Introduction-2
- 7CMOS Introduction-3
- 8CMOS Introduction-4
- 9CMOS Introduction-5
- 10CMOS Introduction-6
- 11Custom complier tool invoke steps
- 12Overview of the layout course
- 13Invoking the custom complier tool steps
- 14Bind keysand PMOS Implementation
- 15PMOS Implementation continued
- 16NMOS Implementation
- 17Inverter Implementation
- 18NAND Implementation
- 19Transmission gate, 2x1 Mux and D flip flop
- 20Ex NOR Implementation
- 21fingers concept and Inverter of with 2 fingers
- 22Multiplier concept and level up shift circuit
- 23Inverter with array concept
- 24Schmitt trigger theory
- 25Schmitt trigger schematic and layout
- 26Level shift Down theory
- 27layout matching technique theory
- 28why metal orientation is required theory
- 29D flip flop and counter theory and layout
- 30Etching process and LOD Effect theory
- 31D flip flop using transmission gate
- 32Deep N-well theory, schematic and layout
- 33SR latch and Frequency divider circuit
- 34Body effect theory
- 35Single stage operational Amplifier(Guarding and Dummy devices concept) theory , schematic, layout
- 36latch up problem theory
- 37WPE theory
- 38Two stage OPAMP theory, schematic and layout
- 39IR drop and Electromigration theory
- 40Short channel effect theory
- 41Phase detector theory
- 42cross talk and shielding
- 43charge pump and biasing circuits
- 44Types of resistors and Channel length modulation
- 45PLL explanation
- 46serializer circuit
- 47mismatch technique
- 48standard cells
- 49PLL circuit
- 50LDO and BGR circuit
- 51BGR circuit
- 52Converters(DAC and ADC)
- 53Converters(DAC and ADC) continued
- 54ADC continued
- 55Memory concept
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