Course Description

Duration 3 day(s)

Language English    Venue Unterpremstatten, Austria

Country 

Course fee 19500,00    Currency .    

Description
A three day intensive course on mixed-mode design methodology at Austria Mikro Systeme International AG, a silicon foundry specialized in design, fabrication, test and assembly of application-specific integrated circuits.

The aim of this course is to enable designers of integrated circuit
- to understand the design methodology for complex mixed-mode ASICs
- to provide insight into the design flow as practiced in AMS engineering departments.

Documentation provided on the course will greatly assist with the design of ASICs. The examples given are based on AMS 0.8 and 0.6 micron CMOS technologies and all design steps can be practiced on workstations.

- Design flow for digital, analogue and mixed-mode designs
- High-level design entry using VHDL and HDL-A
- Front-end design, layout generation, back-annotation and verification
- Interface to test

Course Contents and Time Table
Day 1
-Design flow overview: digital, analogue and mixed-mode designs.
-Digital front-end design entry.
-Digital synthesis and simulation.
-Digital standard cell layout.

Day 2
-Analogue schematic entry
-Analogue simulation and process modelling
-IC layout techniques: schematic-driven-layout
-Analogue back-end design, parasitic back-annotation.

Day 3
-Mixed-mode simulation.
-Mixed-mode back-annotation.
-Interface to production and test.

Audience
Design and Project Engineers who plan to design mixed-mode ASICs with AMS-HIT-Kit in MENTOR.
Analogue design engineers who have already designed integrated circuits and want to use AMS
technologies. Digital designers who need to integrate some analogue functionality in their designs.
Mixed-mode design engineers. Basic knowledge of MENTOR tools is mandatory.

Lecturers
Peter Bösmüller from AMS Design Support. Responsible for digital modelling and simulation.
Karl Gosch from AMS Design Support. Responsible for Place & Route tools.
Gernot Heiling from AMS Design Support. Responsible for the AMS-HIT-Kit with MENTOR Graphics.