Industrial integrated circuit design techniques

The design of industrial integrated circuits (IC) in today´s advanced technologies is a challenging task that involves several relevant aspects often not considered by academic IC designers. Issues such as time-to-market, design reuse, design for test (DFT), design for manufacturing (DFM), yield, project negotiation and intellectual property management, are highly relevant and often not considered in academic projects. This talk will provide an introduction to the area of industrial integrated circuit (IC) design. It is mainly aimed academic researchers with little or no experience on industrial IC design that want to get involved eventually in the development of commercial IC design projects. Focus will be on practical aspects of industrial IC development, based on the experience of the author in research and development projects with various companies. A detailed case study of an ASIC developed by the author for contactless angular detection in automotive applications will serve to illustrate the different concepts treated in the talk.