Fundamentals of VLSI CAD
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The official GTU curriculum for Fundamentals of VLSI CAD (subject code 3712609) as prescribed for EAC( · Semester 1 divides the course into 7 units, covering 34 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3712609)Unit 1 Introduction
- Introduction to VLSI Design methodologies and abstraction levels
- The VLSI Design Problem
- The design domains
- design actions
- design methods and technologies
Unit 2 Algorithmic Graph Theory
- Terminology of graph
- Data Structures for the Representation of Graphs
- Computational Complexity
- Examples of Graph Algorithms- Depth-first Search
- Breadth-first Search etc, Time and space complexity of algorithms
Unit 3 Tractable and Intractable Problems
- Combinatorial Optimization Problems
- Decision Problems
- Complexity Classes
- NP-completeness and NP-hardness
Unit 4 General-purpose Methods for Combinatorial Optimization
- The Unit-size Placement Problem
- Backtracking and Branch-and-bound
- Dynamic Programming
- Integer Linear Programming
- Local Search
- Simulated Annealing
- Tabu Search
- Genetic Algorithms
Unit 5 Logic Synthesis and Verification
- Introduction to Combinational Logic Synthesis
- Binary-decision Diagrams
- Two-level Logic Synthesis
Unit 6 High-level Synthesis
- Hardware Models for High-level Synthesis
- Internal Representation of the Input Algorithm
- Assignment and Scheduling
- Some Scheduling Algorithms
- Some Aspects of the Assignment Problem
- High-level Transformations
Unit 7 Simulation
- General Remarks on VLSI Simulation
- Gate-level Modeling and 4 10 Simulation
- Switch-level Modeling and Simulation
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