VSD – Custom Layout

VLSI - This is where design meets fabrication

Created by: Kunal Ghosh
Digital and Sign-off expert at VLSI System Design(VSD)

What Will I Learn?

• Draw layout from scratch, i.e. right from tech files to metal layer
• Understand each and every mask level, through appropriate fabrication steps
• Get to know how physical design flow communicates with CMOS fabrication process
• This is how 2 different industries communicate

Requirements

• Basic terms of CMOS, NMOS, PMOS
• A brief summary of my existing course on 'Circuit design and SPICE simulations' will help, but can do even without that course
• A brief knowledge of my existing courses on physical design flow and static timing analysis will also help

Target audience

• Anyone curious to know the inception of layout
• Anyone curious to know the software behind layout drawing
• Anyone who wants to know how chip designers talk with chip fabrication department