Integrated circuits design teaching using professional CAD environments

Author

Ribas, R.P. ; Barbosa, F.R. ; Turatti, N.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Inf., Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

2001

fDate

17-18 June 2001

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

78

Abstract

A great demand for qualified integrated circuit (IC) designers has been observed around the world due to the increasing market of semiconductors, wireless communication and Internet. As a result, engineering schools are obligated to ensure the education of a greater number of new designers. To aid this goal, professional computer-aided design (CAD) for microelectronics is preferred rather than using academic CAD tools developed at universities. However, these tools are somewhat complex to learn and not suitable to IC designer training. In this work the Mentor Graphics environment has been adapted to IC design teaching.

Keywords

circuit CAD; computer based training; electronic engineering education; integrated circuit design; teaching; IC design; Mentor Graphics environment; engineering schools; professional CAD environments; teaching; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS logic circuits; Computer graphics; Design automation; Design engineering; Digital integrated circuits; Education; Educational institutions; Integrated circuit layout; Microelectronics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microelectronic Systems Education, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1156-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSE.2001.932422

Filename

932422