Integrated Circuits And Programs Group

ICSG college have developed a Master’s Diploma Program in Integrated Circuits and Programs to serve the working professionals of the Austin area. Tailor-made for busy schedules, the 2-12 months program gives the distinctive opportunity to pursue a master’s diploma while persevering with to work full-time. Upon completion of all this system requirements, a scholar is awarded a Grasp of Science in Engineering degree with a major in Electrical and Laptop Engineering and a focus in Built-in Circuits and Systems. The program is administered by the center for Lifelong Engineering Training (CLEE).


Programs in Common ECE Program
The ICSG college train courses on the undergraduate and graduate levels that span the complete space of IC design and design methodology.


UNDERGRADUATE
EE338L

Evaluation and design of analog built-in circuits; transistor fashions, integrated circuit technologies; format strategies; mismatches; easy and advanced current mirrors, single-stage amplifiers; differential-pair amplifiers; frequency response; noise considerations; suggestions; nonlinear circuits; cascode amplifiers; telescopic and folded-cascode operational amplifiers; two-stage operational amplifiers using state-of-the-art EDA/CAD instruments for design simulation and structure.


EE360M
DIGITAL Programs DESIGN Utilizing VHDL

Hardware implementation of arithmetic and other algorithmic processes; hardware description languages (VHDL); organization, design, and simulation of digital techniques.


EE360R
Computer-AIDED INTEG CIRCUIT DESIGN

Principle and apply of built-in circuit design. Courses of chip design, chip partitioning, and structure; laptop-aided design instruments for simulation and bodily design


EE360S
DIGITAL Integrated CIRCUIT DESIGN

Circuit-level elements of steel oxide silicon (MOS) and bipolar built-in circuit technologies. Logic gates and latches; propagation delays; circuit simulation models.


EE379K
ANALOG ICS FOR COMMUNICATION Programs

System fashions, small-sign circuit evaluation, noise and distortion in gadgets and circuits, including relevant metrics; biasing techniques, voltage references, current sources and biasing for low-noise functions; amplifier design strategies for low noise, variable achieve amplifiers, power amplifiers; integrated mixers; and built-in oscillators.


GRADUATE Programs
EE382M-1


VLSI TESTING
Hardware and software reliability analysis of digital techniques; testing, design for testability, self-prognosis, fault-tolerant logic design, error-detecting and error-correcting codes.


EE382M-10
SYNTHESIS OF DIGITAL Methods

Automatic technology of gate-stage implementations from HDL specs; optimization of two-level, multilevel, and sequential circuits for area, pace, and testability.


EE382M-eleven
VERIFICATION OF DIGITAL Programs

Automatic verification of digital techniques; formal fashions and specifications, equivalence checking, design verification, temporal logic, BDDs, logical foundations, automata idea, latest developments


EE382M-12
SYSTEM DESIGN METRICS

Analysis of design at chip, board, and system ranges; life cycle implications of design choices, together with design for testability effects on production and field service; economic and buyer-pushed elements


EE382M-14
ANALOG Built-in CIRCUIT DESIGN

Design and implementation of analog integrated circuits (ICs) focusing on transistor-degree design of circuits utilizing the modern semiconductor fabrication processes, significantly CMOS. The blocks and circuit architectures mentioned on this course are the core components of most built-in methods and important in functions similar to communications, multimedia, imaging, sensors, and biomedical.


EE382M-2
Dependable COMPUTING

Design techniques for dependable, fault-tolerant, fail-protected and fail-smooth techniques; fault diagnosis and fault avoidance methods at program and system levels; experimental and business fault-tolerant laptop methods.


EE382M-7
VLSI TESTING:

VLSI I: CMOS know-how; structured digital circuits; VLSI programs; pc-aided design instruments and principle for design automation; chip design.


EE382M-eight
VLSI II

Microelectronic techniques structure; VLSI circuit testing methods; integration of heterogeneous computer-aided design instruments; wafer scale integration; superior excessive-pace circuit design and integration.


Radio Frequency Built-in Circuit Design
Design and evaluation of RF and analog ICs, including a description of noise and distortion in gadgets and circuits; biasing techniques together with voltage references, present sources and biasing for low-noise purposes; amplifier design methods for low noise, variable achieve, high output power and excessive dynamic vary; integrated mixers and other frequency converters; rectifier circuits; and built-in oscillators for producing fastened and variable frequencies.


10M16DAF484I6G  of the CAD flow; basics of logic synthesis; graph theory and computational complexity; partitioning; floorplanning and placement; global and detailed routing; static timing analysis and delay modeling; timing closure and physical synthesis; noise sources in timing evaluation and PD; CAD for manufacturability; statistical timing evaluation and statistical circuit optimization


NANOSCALE IC DESIGN
CMOS technology and design scaling; nanometer transistors and their models; design time energy optimization (circuit-degree methods, architecture, interconnect, memory); standby-mode power optimization (circuits and programs, reminiscence); runtime power optimization (circuits and techniques); sources of variability; statistical knowledge assortment and analysis of variance; statistical circuit simulation and timing evaluation; manufacturability and decision enhancement methods.


EE382V:
SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP DESIGN-ICS

Ideas, issues, and process of system-degree design of embedded techniques, i.e., hardware-software program co-design & co-verification; modeling and specification of an embedded system at a excessive degree of abstraction; use of co-simulation to validate system performance; evaluation of practical and nonfunctional performance of the system early in the design course of to help design decisions; analysis of hardware/software tradeoffs, algorithms, and architectures to optimize the system based mostly on requirements and implementation constraints.


EMBEDDED SYSTEM DESIGN AND MODELING
This course presents state-of-the-art strategies, tools and strategies for system-level design and modeling of complete multi-processor techniques from specification down to implementation across hardware-software boundaries. Using the SpecC language and the System-On-Chip Environment (SCE), we'll specify, simulate, analyze, model and design techniques based mostly on examples of typical embedded purposes.


VLSI Bodily DESIGN AUTOMATION
Fundamentals of physical design, the strategy of reworking structural illustration of a VLSI system into layout illustration. This course focuses on design automation problems together with: logic partitioning, floorplanning, placement, global routing, detailed routing, clock and energy routing, and new traits in bodily synthesis. Optimization methods, resembling graph idea, community stream, Steiner tree, simulated annealing, generic algorithm, and linear/convex programming are additionally covered.


EE382V
OPTIMIZATION Points IN VLSI CAD

As CMOS scales into deep submicron dimensions, VLSI designs are interconnect-dominated for the overall chip performance, price, and reliability. The resulting design closure drawback has been a key challenge for deep-submicron (DSM) VLSI design automation. Meanwhile, as CMOS continues scaling to 45nm and beyond, power is becoming a key limiting issue, together with different nanometer physical effects (akin to noise and reliability) and manufacturing constraints. All these make nanometer VLSI designs extremely advanced. Intelligent pc-aided design (CAD) and optimization instruments are essential to offering the most effective general system performance, energy, reliability, and manufacturability.