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Introduction to Physical Design
About the track
Description
In this track, students will acquire fundamental techniques and knowledge used at the physical implementation
of integrated digital circuits at nanometer technology
Track goal
The objective of this course is to provide the fundamental theoretical and practical tools to implement a
VLSI design, i.e. transforming a very simple HDL Design into a Physical Design that could be sent to the foundry for
fabrication.
Prerequisites
This course is intended for advanced students, graduate students and professionals who have
background on digital electronics – combinational circuits and sequential circuits – and CMOS technology
– MOS transistor operation
Contents
- Introduction to physical implementation
- Logical Synthesis
- Place and Route concepts
- Timing verification (Static Timing Analysis)
- Power consumption
- Implementation of a design using Open EDA tools
- Concepts of final verification
Professors
Ing. Fernando Tomás Segura Atencio (Marvell Technology Inc)
Fernando Segura Atencio was born in Córdoba, Argentina. He received the degree of Electronic Engineer from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2021. In November 2021, he joined Marvell Technology Inc. where he started working on the physical design of mixed-signal integrated circuits, working on different technology nodes, 5nm 3nm and 2nm, aiming at the lowest power digital design implementation. He has worked on the physical design of 800 Gb/s optical coherent transceivers and hard IP used in various projects.
Ing. Ignacio López Lombardo (Allegro Microsystems)
He holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from the National University of Moreno, obtained in 2019. He was employed at the Defense Eletronics School from 2016 to 2020. He has served as a faculty member at Ezeiza Provincial University since 2020 and at Palermo University 2023 teaching Advanced Digital Circuits Design. He participated in EAMTA 2019 and 2020 as a student. Then, in 2024, he developed and taught the course Introduction to Physical Design, thereby expanding the EAMTA curriculum to include this new discipline. Between 2021 and 2024, he was a member of the Physical Design team at Marvell Technology. In 2024, he joined the Physical Design team at Allegro Microsystem, where he currently holds the position of Physical Design Engineer.
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Preparation content
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