Semiconductor Engineering

LLM-Powered Automatic VLSI Design Flow Tuning Framework

A new technical paper titled “CROP: Circuit Retrieval and Optimization with Parameter Guidance using LLMs” was published by researchers at Duke University and Synopsys. “Modern very large-scale ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

COMP_ENG 357: Introduction to VLSI CAD

CATALOG DESCRIPTION : Basic concepts in VLSI CAD with emphasis on physical design, fundamental algorithms for CAD problems, development of CAD tools. REQUIRED TEXT: Andrew B. Kahng, Jens Lienig, Igor ...
EDN

PCB Design Basics: Example design flow

This series of articles discusses the different steps of PCB development from the basics of creating a design schematic with specific requirements, to finalizing a board and preparing it for ...
Design-Reuse

VLSI Physical Design Methodology for ASIC Development with a Flavor of IP Hardening

As the semiconductor industry is rapidly changing, there is limited margin of error for Designers, verification engineers and layout designers. We must get success on ...
Design-Reuse

CPF Based Verification of an SoC - Lessons Learnt

Power Management keeps being a very valuable asset for mobile applications. CPF (Common Power Format) is a common file format to describe the power structure of the design in the early design stages ...