Home Technical trainings Training catalog Training detail
Skip to content

Introduction to IC design techniques

Basic rules and methods of electronic design
code: EICD-O-01
length: 3 days
training plan:
2 hours
  • Historical overview of IC development
  • Moor’s law, IC types and structures
4 hours
  • Practical demonstration of analogue IC design
  • Technology estimation (design kit), specification, schematic capture, simulation
2 hours
  • IC manufacturing processes
4 hours
  • Practical demonstration of analogue IC design
  • Topology design (layout), design rule checker (DRC), layout versus schematic (LVS), parasitic extraction, post-layout simulation
2 hours
  • Design methodology of digital ICs, HDL languages, levels of abstraction
  • Frond-end, back-end, synthesis, floor plan, place and route, timing analysis
4 hours
  • Practical demonstration of digital IC design
  • Specification, choosing the targeted platform, HDL description, synthesis, floor plan, place and route, timing analysis
training information:
Training Target
  • Gaining the basic knowledge about the analogue and digital IC design techniques, terminology overview, and insight to the analogue and digital design methodologies
  • Getting closer to the real analogue and digital IC design by using professional EDA design environment
Who Should Attend
  • The course is structured to appeal to a wide range of R&D staff, marketing and business development managers, as well as to engineers from institutes and companies active in electronic systems and electronic design or related field
Prerequisites
  • Basics of electronics
Content
  • Historical overview of IC design, Moor’s law
  • Types and structures of integrated circuits and current technologies
  • IC Design methods, trends, future
  • Practical demonstration of analog IC design flow, including a draft topology proposal (layout)
  • Practical demonstration of digital IC design flow
Training Environment
  • Max. 12 students per course
  • Training materials are provided
  • The course may be adapted in content according to customer needs, adaptations not requiring modification of training materials are provided at no extra charge (-C,-S)
  • Additional after-class consultation and discussion following each course day's training are provided free of charge
  • Lunch and refreshment are provided for courses held at Trainingpoint facilities (-C, -O)
  • Lunch and refreshment are provided by customers for courses held at their facilities (-S)
  • Up to x hours' free consultation after the course for the entire company (x = number of training days + 1) (-C,-S)
  • E-mail consultations after classes are possible (-O)