VSD Intern Mixed Signal Physical Design Flow with Sky130

VSD Intern – Mixed Signal Physical Design Flow with Sky130, available at $34.99, has an average rating of 4.05, with 19 lectures, based on 30 reviews, and has 258 subscribers.

You will learn about Multi-height RTL2GDS flow for Mixed Signal SoC Steps to convert basic analog block to hard-macro Steps to use hard-macro in OpenLANE RTL2GDS flow Labs to verify Macro based Physical Design flow This course is ideal for individuals who are Students looking for a platform to enter into Physical design world or Experts looking forward to explore Macro based OpenLANE flow It is particularly useful for Students looking for a platform to enter into Physical design world or Experts looking forward to explore Macro based OpenLANE flow.

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Summary

Title: VSD Intern – Mixed Signal Physical Design Flow with Sky130

Price: $34.99

Average Rating: 4.05

Number of Lectures: 19

Number of Published Lectures: 19

Number of Curriculum Items: 19

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 19

Original Price: $89.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Multi-height RTL2GDS flow for Mixed Signal SoC

Steps to convert basic analog block to hard-macro

Steps to use hard-macro in OpenLANE RTL2GDS flow

Labs to verify Macro based Physical Design flow

Who Should Attend

Students looking for a platform to enter into Physical design world

Experts looking forward to explore Macro based OpenLANE flow

Target Audiences

Students looking for a platform to enter into Physical design world

Experts looking forward to explore Macro based OpenLANE flow

This course describes how the PNR of an analog IP, 2:1 analog multiplexer is carried out by opensource EDA tools, OpenLANE. It also discusses the steps to modify the current IP layouts in order to ensure its acceptance by the EDA tools

Mixed signal SoC is a chip which contains both analog and digital blocks. The designers are adding more analog circuitry and increasing their complexities day by day. Not only that, they also contain digital control logic. As the process nodes shrink, the demand for integration grows. A divide and conquer approach is followed, where the analog and digital structures were dealt with separately. Usually, an analog IP (Intellectual Property) is bought as black- box

To implement a RTL-to-GDS flow for mixed signal SoC, there is need to establish communication between the analog and digital blocks. For this integration to happen, hierarchical level of abstraction with either analog or digital as top level is required. In order to carry out this task, OpenROAD project can be utilized

Hope you enjoy the session. Any constructive feedback is appreciated

Future Work

To include custom LIB for macro and include timing constraints.

To perform PNR on macro of triple-height or more

Acknowledgement

Kunal Ghosh, Co-founder, VSD Corp. Pvt. Ltd

Openlane team, Efabless corporation

Tim Edwards, Senior Vice President of Analog and Design at efabless corporation

Nickson Jose, VLSI Engineer

Prithivi Raj K, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirapalli

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Generating hard-macro LEF for basic analog block

Lecture 1: Introduction to mixed-signal flow and EDA tools used

Lecture 2: Macro LEF file modification

Lecture 3: Steps to create pins in macro LEF

Lecture 4: Steps to modify LEF class, origin and site properties

Lecture 5: Steps to modify LEF bounding box property

Lecture 6: Steps to modify LEF port property

Lecture 7: LEF file modifications summary

Chapter 2: Macro based RTL2GDS using OpenLANE/Sky130

Lecture 1: Steps to setup new OpenLANE project

Lecture 2: Steps to setup input files in OpenLANE project

Lecture 3: Steps to setup macro LEF files for OpenLANE flow

Lecture 4: Final OpenLANE config file settings

Lecture 5: Prep design and add LEFs in OpenLANE flow

Chapter 3: RTL2GDS Physical Design flow steps

Lecture 1: Short theory on RTL2GDS flow

Lecture 2: RTL synthesis and floorplan step

Lecture 3: Global and detailed placement

Lecture 4: Tap-Decap detailed placement

Lecture 5: PDN generation

Lecture 6: Final routing and GDS generation

Lecture 7: Final layout review and conclusion

Instructors

Kunal Ghosh
Digital and Sign-off expert at VLSI System Design(VSD)

Praharsha Mahurkar
Happy Learning

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1 stars: 2 votes

2 stars: 1 votes

3 stars: 8 votes

4 stars: 4 votes

5 stars: 15 votes

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