cAD :

Content

·         Computer-Aided Design
·         Digital Design
·         Sequential Design and State Machines
·         Architecture Design
·         Hardware Description Languages
·         Design Synthesis
·         Digital Design Flow
·         Design Verification
·         Design for Test
·         Physical Design (Placement and Routing)

Textbooks 

·         Textbook: M.J.S. Smith, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1997
·         P. J. Ashenden, The Designer's Guide to VHDL, Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd ed.,2002.
·         W. Wolf, Modern VLSI Design: Systems on Silicon, Prentice, 2nd ed., 1998.
·         G.De Micheli, Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
·         G. Hachtel and F. Somenzi, Logic Synthesis and Verification Algorithms, Kluwer, 1998.
·         N.A. Sherwani, Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation, Kluwer Academic Publishers; 3rd ed., 1999.
·         M. L. Bushnell and V. D. Agrawal, Essentials of Electronic Testing for Digital, Memory and Mixed-Signal VLSI circuits, Kluwer, 2001.