VLSI

This specialization covers designing integrated circuits: CMOS device and inverter behaviour, combinational and sequential logic families, layout and design rules, delay, power and noise, and the digital design flow -- RTL description in Verilog or VHDL, synthesis, floorplanning, place and route, static timing analysis, design for testability and low-power techniques. Analog and mixed-signal layout and the tape-out checks form the remainder.