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49361 Design Automation for Integrated Circuits
Danish title: Design automatisering for integrerede kredsløb
Language: English Credit points: 5
Type: Ph.D.-level, Open University
Language: English

Previous course: C4361
No credit points with: C4261/C4361
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Scope and form: 2 lectures per week and afternoons with exercises
Examination: Evaluation of report and oral presentation (13-scale)
Contact person: Jan Madsen, Building 322, Tel. +45 4525 3751, email jan@it.dtu.dk, http://www.it.dtu.dk/~jan

URL: http://www.it.dtu.dk/c49361
Department: Department of Information Technology
Aim: (1) To give students an understanding of the methods and techniques used in the CAD-tools that are used for design of large digital integrated circuits. (2) To provide an understanding of the possibilities and limitations of commercial CAD tools. (3) To enable the students to participate actively in the development of new design tools.
Contents: The course covers the fundamental methods, models, and algorithms that are used for automated design of large digital circuits. The emphasis of the course is on identification of design problems, their mathematical formulation and solution using computers. Topics covers:
- Introduction to design automation.
- Basics: Specification languages, models and algortihms.
- Layout sunthesis: Physical design problems in partitioning, placement and routing.
- Behavioral synthesis: Obtaining the system architecture from a behavooral description by scheduling, allocation and binding.
- Codesign: Hardware/software partitioning.