This is a RISC-V course from Udemy on how to design a 32-bit processor.

 

What you’ll learn
  • Run a full physical design flow from RTL design to GDSII, making it ready for tape-out.For freshers, this course will make them industry ready and might increase their chances of getting placed or work for tier-1 company.
  • For experienced VLSI Physical design professionals, this will give a bigger picture of SoC physical design, which is appplication specific.
  • For senior non-VLSI engineers, this course will help them understand the whole flow, with pictures, labs and visualization.

 

Requirements

Knowledge about previous course “VSD – Making the Raven chip: How to design a RISC-V SoC” is nice to have, but not must to have as this course focuses on Physical design concepts, like synthesis, placement, routing, DRC, LVS and tapeout needs Knowledge about clock tree synthesis/STA/custom layout is nice to have and can be taken from existing VSD courses Udemy. Take up the courses “VSD – clock tree synthesis”, “VSD – Static timing analysis” and “VSD – Custom Layout” on Udemy.

Description

After successful webinar on Making of Raven Chip, this time we take the chip forward and implement using end-to-end opensource EDA tools, and all on efabless cloud. What does this mean to us? It means, you can start innovating on a design, build RTL and do synth/PD/LVS/DRC all using opensource EDA framework and not pay a single penny for license.

 

About instructors
Tim Edwards

Tim Edwards has been doing analog VLSI design and collecting and developing open-source EDA tools for over 25 years. He has worked for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, startups MultiGiG (bought by Analog Devices) and most recently, eFabless.

Mohamed Kassem

Mohamed Kassem is the cofounder and CTO of eFabless corporation. Prior to launching eFabless in 2014, Mohamed held several technical and global leadership positions within TI’s Wireless Business Unit. He joined TI in 2000 at the beginning of the digital telephony revolution fueled by the unprecedented integration of major phone functions on a single SoC. He led the first development of 45nm, 28nm analog & mixed-signal IP functions for wireless applications processors. Mohamed holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

 

Who this course is for
  • Anyone curious to know end-to-end aspects of chip designing i.e from SOC design to tapeout, which involves lot of steps like placement, routing, clock tree synthesis, DRC cleanup, LVS fixing.
  • Anyone curious to know how to achieve all of above using all EDA open-source tools. Not a single penny to be paid as license fee.
  • Anyone who wishes to innovate, implement and submit a paper on any design, implemented using open-source tools.

 

You can check this course out on Udemy here