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ECE 41438 - ASIC Fabrication And Test II


Credit Hours: 2.00. The second semester of a two-semester sequence to give teams of 3 to 6 students the experience of designing an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), having the chip fabricated and testing it. The team of students will develop requirements for a design, prepare the design using VHDL ((VHSIC(very high speed integrated circuit) Hardware Description Language)), Verilog, or schematic entry tools, create and use test benches to functionally verify the design, use automated tools to prepare a circuit layout, verify the final layout, submit the layout for fabrication, prepare a physical test bed, test or demonstrate the chip, and document all aspects of the design and test results. Permission of department required. Typically offered Spring.