Integrated Circuit Design Certificate

The Integrated Circuit Design Certificate offers courses and hands-on design experiences in digital, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (IC) design using CMOS. The digital IC course (ECE 7356 ) includes VLSI digital circuits design from digital circuit synthesis using hardware description language, to transistor level design and optimization, and automatic place and route. The Analog IC course (ECE 7321 ) covers the design and simulations of high-gain and low-power amplifier which are one of the most important IC building blocks. Finally, the advanced-level courses (ECE 8355  and ECE 8356 ) cover two of the most widely used circuits for many IC applications: phase-locked loops (PLLs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Industrial leading design tools such as Cadence will be used throughout these courses for design, implementation, simulations, and verification.