And I really believe in that...

I was a novice in TCL programming 10 years back. One thing that led from novice to an expert is "Practice"

Be it learning scripting language or an EDA tool, nothing beats 'concepts'. I have been proving this in my courses, how learning a tool is the last 5% task of entire learning flow.

My students, who have been working with on several projects and also learning through my courses, have not only learned semiconductors, but lived the journey. And I promise, the same will happen with my this course on TCL scripting as well.

I have been using the same approach in last 10 years for solving problems, be it a TCL script issue or an issue with STA timing violation or an issue with DRC or an issue with floor planning or an issue with routing congestion, you name it..

You will witness the same in all my courses and in this one as well. Let's unveil the concepts of data flow and manipulation using TCL scripts

This time .... Its more personal

You have been very supportive for all these 6 years and I would like to "Thank You" from the bottom of my heart Now its time to enter your hearts and minds, so we connect for lifetime.

The reason for the success of my webinars and workshops was the connection that you had with me, and, believe me, that's tough to build. It would not have been possible without you believing in me and my product....

So here I bring the entire webinar ONLINE for you..

We had conducted 4 workshops and 2 webinars on STA in Bangalore, India, where designers and students from Chicago, Minnesota, New York and San-Francisco connected LIVE with me. The webinar was very interactive and couple of mind-blowing ideas and queries came up.

Everyone who attended the webinar and workshops, and myself, ended up with the same feeling....this webinar should go LIVE online so that everyone, including the attendees of my webinar, can re-live the entire experience again and again. 

So, I bring this to you. Its LIVE. Its ONE-2-ONE and Its more Personal Coaching as you would see more of interaction rather than one-sided talking. Grab your seat and enjoy the similar experience that we had...

Stay Tuned....

If you are STA engineer or PNR engineer or CTS engineer or, in general, a physical designer or Synthesis engineer, you must have definitely come across the word 'Library'. This course explains you, in detail, what it exactly means. 

You can call Library as the soul and heart of Semiconductor industries. Without them, you can't have single chip out. Without the knowledge of Libraries, all other courses are incomplete. 

Guess what, you are at the right page. This course gives a comprehensive overview of characterization techniques and advanced modelling of circuits for modern and advanced nodes. 

Not only that, you will see what goes behind designing a simple single input inverter. The gates like inverter, buffer, AND, OR are all called as cell, and you will be amazed to see how are the represented in real IC design.

In this course, we are focusing on application of these concepts on real chip using opensource sta tool called 'Opentimer'. There is an amount of homework needed to make this tool work, but you know what, looking and feeling the power of this opensource tool, you will find the effort is worth taking

Why its worth? Because, you can now analyze your chip at $0 right from your home. Isn't that FREEdom that we have been looking for? In my advanced courses, including this one, the prime focus is on how to analyze complex chips like USB controller or DDR using Opentimer.

Physical designers and CMOS fabrication team communicates with each other, and this course says it 'How?'

While physical designers use all the outputs from experiments performed by fabrication department, this course will demonstrate the best of both worlds and connect them through exchange of certain files in certain format

This way, custom layout designers get to know an insight how does fabrication works, fabrication engineers get to know, how layout engineers uses their information. So this course is a place where both meet, talk and connect. 

Also, the standard files needed to draw and simulate layout, are being taken, deduced and created from scratch and on the fly. This is, by far, the best way to understand layout, and I can promise you an exciting journey throughout this course

Course is structured to explain the CMOS packaging and fabrication steps in beginning, followed by software and files used to draw and simulate layout, and look into DRC rules.

Next, we will take a simple CMOS inverter and apply all concepts learned above. Finally, we will learn the 'Art of layout' using Euler's path. This is where you will solve complex functions and draw a layout out of it. 

Clock Tree Networks are Pillars and Columns of a Chip.

With these series of lectures, we have explored on-site concepts applied in VLSI industry. It is a One-Stop-Shop to understand industrial VLSI circuits.

The videos will develop an analytical approach to tackle technical challenges while building Clock Tree.

Performance, Power and Area are the three main pillars of the Chip Design, Crosstalk can hamper all three.
Crosstalk is the interference caused due to communication between the circuits
Lets learn to " HOW TO REDUCE CROSSTALK ? " to achieve a efficient Chip design which give the best performance, uses optimal power and in minimal Chip area.

So, you are a professional in VLSI, doing tons of tapeouts and accurate timing analysis.

OR, say, you are a student, who already went through my previous courses on clock tree synthesis, physical design flow and crosstalk,

But, sit back, and give it a thought "Have you done it all?" "Did you know, where does the delay of a cell actually comes from?" "We have learnt about delay models, but are the models accurate?" "How do you verify, if what you are doing in static timing analysis, is correct?" and many more.

These are some of curious questions we wonder about, but hardly find any answers. Even if we found the answers, as a passionate learner, we are still more curious to do some practical things on our own.

And, here's the answer to all of them. SPICE (Simulation Program for Integrated Circuit Emphasis). This course has answers to almost all questions that you might have as a serious timing analyst

So let's get started and keep those questions coming in the forum, and I will answer all of them.

See you in class !!

The course is designed in the form of micro-videos, which delivers content in the form of Info-Graphics. It is designed for self-learning and will help to polish the Industrial skills in VLSI World. This course will cover end-to-end description from basic Device Physics to Chip Design.

We have contributed anonymously to this website, just to share the part of knowledge learned all these years, with the students keen to learn the basic concepts of the Chip Design. And also shared our industrial experience to give the technological exposure of current development in chip world...