Teaching introductory course in VLSI for graduate level program

Author

El Kateeb, Ali ; Shaout, Adnan

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Michigan, Dearborn, MI

fYear

2008

fDate

27-29 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper describe the first VLSI graduate course details for students studying in the field of computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and information technology. An overview of how VLSI course is taught in universities world wide has been covered in this paper. The curriculum of the introductory course in VLSI in different parts of the world has been investigated in this paper. However, we focused on the teaching of the ldquointroduction to VLSI designrdquo course at our academic institution - University of Michigan at Dearborn. The paper also focuses on the CAD tools used by universities to enhance the proclivity of the students towards the course.

Keywords

VLSI; circuit CAD; computer aided instruction; educational courses; electronic engineering education; integrated circuit design; teaching; CAD tool; VLSI design; academic institution; introductory VLSI graduate course teaching; very large scale integration; Books; Circuits; Computer architecture; Computer science; Costs; Education; Electrical engineering; Information technology; SPICE; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics and Its Applications, 2008. ISMA 2008. 5th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2033-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2034-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISMA.2008.4648826

Filename

4648826