Course Description

Duration 3 day(s)

Language English    Venue Unterpremstätten, Austria

Country 

Course fee 19500,00    Currency ATS    

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 one

· Design Flow Overview
· Design for Test
· Synthesis
· Digital Simulation
· Standard Cell Place & Route
· Backannotation

Day two

· Schematic Entry
· Analogue Simulation
· Monte-Carlo and Corner Analysis
· Schematic Driven Layout
· Extraction

Day three

· Design Partitioning
· Mixed Signal Simulation
· Mixed Signal Backannotation
· Design Rule Checking, Layout versus Schematic

Audience
Design and Project Engineers who plan to design mixed-mode ASICs with the HIT-Kit in Mentor. Analogue design engineers who have already designed integrated circuits and want to use Austria Mikro Systeme International AG technologies. Digital designers who need to integrate some analogue functionality into their designs. Mixed-mode design engineers. Familiarity with the Mentor Design environment is essential.

Lecturers
Peter Boesmueller. Responsible for the HIT-Kit with Mentor Graphics

Karl Gosch. Responsible for Layout Tools

Heimo Gensinger. Responsible for Analogue and High Voltage Libraries

Further information
Austria Mikro Systeme International AG
Schloss Premstätten
A-8141 Unterpremstätten, Austria
phone: +43 (3136) 500-0
email: info@amsint.com