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Tips on order in which you need to learn
VLSI and become a CHAMPION:
If I would had been you, I would had started with Physical Design course where
I understand the entire flow first, then would have moved to CTS-1 and CTS-2 to look into details of how the clock is been built.
Then, as you all know how crosstalk impacts functioning at lower nodes, I would gone for Signal Integrity course to understand impacts of scaling and fix them. Once I do that, I would want to know how to analyze performance of my design and I would have gone for STA-1 and STA-2 courses, respectively
Once you STA, there’s an internal curiosity which rises, and wants us to understand, what goes inside timing analysis at transistor level. To full-fill
that, I would had taken Circuit design and SPICE simulations Part 1 and Part 2 courses.
All of above needs to be implemented using a CAD tool and needs to be done faster, for which I would have
written TCL or perl scripts. So for that, I would start to learn TCL-Part1 and TCL-Part2 courses, at very beginning or in middle
This will complete my learning cycle, and just to let you know, this is how studied and experimented in last 10 years. Guess what…It’s still not enough….I want to explore more, and so would you want to after
finishing my course 100%
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