VLSI Design

Learn how modern semiconductor chips are designed, fabricated, and transformed from silicon wafers into real-world processors used in smartphones, laptops, and AI systems. Develop industry-relevant RTL design skills using Verilog, including combinational logic, sequential circuits, clock-based systems, and hardware modeling techniques. Design and implement core digital building blocks such as ALUs, registers, FIFOs, finite state machines, and memory architectures used inside modern processors. Perform professional RTL verification through simulation, waveform analysis, debugging, and self-checking testbench development to validate hardware functionality. Understand real-world silicon constraints including static timing analysis, setup/hold violations, power optimization, and low-power chip design methodologies. Integrate multiple hardware modules into complete digital systems while learning industry signoff concepts such as DRC, LVS, and tapeout readiness.