MICS5520 Physical Design Automation of Digital Systems – Fall 2022


Lecture: Tuesday 13:30-16:20
Venue: W2-102
Instructor: Prof. Yuzhe Ma yuzhema@hkust-gz.edu.cn
Office Hours: Monday 15:30 – 17:30 @W4-511

Announcements

  • July 29, 2023: Course webpage is built up and the teaching schedule is online.

Description

This course introduces the foundations of modern VLSI electronic design automation (EDA), with a focus on optimization and algorithm foundations for VLSI physical design problems. Each lecture will introduce one design stage, including design objectives, problem definitions, and typical methodologies (with preliminaries). We will see a set of concrete applications of various conventional optimization techniques in VLSI design, e.g., graph theory, convex optimization, numerical optimization, machine learning, etc. Guest lecturer(s) from academia and industry will be invited to provide practical views and supplementary insights.

Prerequisites

Course Requirements

Schedule

Date Topic Reading Note
Sep. 07 L01 Introduction
Sep. 14 L02 Partitioning
Sep. 21 L03 Floorplanning
Sep. 28 L04 Placement
Oct. 05 N/A National Day Holiday
Oct. 12 L05 Placement (cont.)
Oct. 19 L06 Routing
Oct. 26 L07 Routing (cont.)
Nov. 02 L08 Design for Manufacturing
Nov. 09 L09 Design for Manufacturing (cont.)
Nov. 16 L10 Mask Optimization
Nov. 23 L11 Emerging Technologies
Nov. 30 Guest Lecture
Dec. 07 Final Presentation


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