Wondering what a democratic workshop is? VSD interns before (now experts) have started the concept of "Democratic Workshops" thereby helping more and more interns all around the world. VSD platform has enabled workshops from young experts, which enables thousands of more students to step-up and pursue a career in VLSI and semiconductors. This workshop, like all previous workshops, develops the
foundation for any VLSI analog design using any technology node, especially for students, who are looking for analog job profiles. You might also be well aware that analog is a rare skill and hence so many openings in analog space.
So anyone, who missed the last tapeout shuttle, can take this workshop, do labs, download projects and re-submit in the next Sky130 shuttle. This way, a fresher or student or professionals in other domains, get an entire specs to analog layout awareness in a matter of 2-days, which, by-the-way, helps a lot during job switch and campus placements.
Here's the registration link (Last 30-hrs)
Day Wise Content
Day 1 – PLL Theory and Lab setup
- Introduction to PLL
- Introduction to Phase Frequency Detector
- Introduction to Charge Pump
- Introduction to VCO and Frequency Divider
- Tool setup and design flow
- Introduction to PDK, specifications and pre-layout circuits
- Circuit design simulation tool - Ngspice Setup
- Layout design tool - Magic Setup
Day 2 – PLL Labs and post-layout simulations
- PLL components circuit design
- PLL components circuit simulations
- Steps to combine PLL sub-circuits and PLL full design simulation
- Troubleshooting steps
- Layout design
- Layout Walkthrough
- Parasitics extraction
- Post Layout simulations
- Steps to combine layouts
- Tapeout theory
- Tapeout labs
All the best and happy learning
