UCSC VLSI-DA Chip Tutorials

To clone this repo and all of the tutorial files locally, you can use the following command:

git clone https://github.com/VLSIDA/chip-tutorials.git
cd chip-tutorials

You should use the most recent version if there are any changes. To get this, run:

git pull

Basic Tutorials

1. UCSC Git
2. WSL
3. Virtual Environment
4. Docker

Chip Tutorials

1. OpenROAD Flow Scripts (ORFS) Tutorials

   1. ORFS Installation
   2. ORFS Walkthrough
   3. Porting a Design to ORFS
   4. Building OpenROAD from Source
   5. OpenROAD Python Tutorial
   6. OpenROAD TCL Tutorial

2. Static Timing Analysis

3. Spice Syntax

4. Ngspice Usage

5. KLayout

VLSI-DA Research Tutorials

1. ML
2. GNNs

Reading Materials

• CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems perspective (4th Edition), Weste & Harris (ISBN-10: 0321547748)
• Digital Integrated Circuits (2nd Edition) - A Design Perspective by Rabaey, Chandrakasan, & Nikolic (ISBN-10: 0130909963)
• Electronic Design Automation for IC Implementation, Circuit Design, and Process Technology Edited by Luciano Lavagno, Igor L. Markov, Grant Martin, and Louis K. Scheffer, CRC Press 2016. (ISBN-10: 0849379245) It is available through the campus library

Other material

Outdated Tutorials

1. OpenLane Installation
2. OpenLane Walkthrough

In progress

1. Sky130

License

Copyright 2024 VLSI-DA (see LICENSE for use)