CAD for VLSI Design I

The below mentioned chapters cover the Front end design aspects of Very large Scale Integration Chip manufacturing Cycle. It also teaches verilog Hardware Description language (HDL) that shall help in describing a circuit to the tools for simulation and further processing of the same towards manufacturing the chip.

  1. Evolution of CAD Tools
  2. Importance of Design Automation
  3. Basic Transistor Fundamentals
  4. Gate Level Modeling
  5. Higher Levels of Modeling
  6. Types of CAD Tools
  7. Verilog Quick Starter
  8. Introduction to Simulators
  9. Verilog Syntax
  10. Verilog - Operators and expressions
  11. Hierarchical Design and methodology
  12. Delay modeling
  13. Delay Modeling (contd)
  14. Blocking and Non Blocking Assignments
  15. Behavioural Modeling
  16. Verilog Tasks and Functions
  17. Memory Modeling
  18. Advanced Delay Modeling
  19. Advanced Delay Modeling (Contd)
  20. Verilog Tricks
  21. Introduction to Logic Synthesis
  22. Logic Synthesis (Contd)
  23. Logic Synthesis (Contd)
  24. Synthesis: Assignment Statements
  25. Synthesis: Arithmetic Operators
  26. Synthesis: Bit Selects
  27. Synthesis: Conditional Statements
  28. Synthesis: Case Statements
  29. Synthesis: Case Statements (Contd)
  30. Synthesis: Loops
  31. Synthesis: Local & Integer Variables
  32. Synthesis: Flip Flops with preset / clear
  33. Synthesis: Blocking Vs Non Blocking Assignments
  34. Synthesis: Unknowns and High Impedance
  35. Optimization in Synthesis
  36. Optimization in Synthesis (Contd)
  37. Introduction to Reconfigurable Computing
  38. Introduction to FPGAs
  39. Introduction to FPGAs (Contd)
  40. The Altera Quartus Flow

Computer Networking

Below mentioned presentations covers various important topics in Computer Networking viz. OSI reference model, topology design, maccess control level, LAN design, IEEE LAN standards, Logical link control protocols, HDLC, ALOHA, Slotted ALOHA, FDDI, client server model, network layer level, WAN, MAN, TCP/IP, Novel Netware, Routers, Bridges, Gateways. X.25, NETSCAPE, MOSAIC, Transport layer, upper layers, e-mail and other applications