Prerequisite |
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ECE 520 ASIC Design or equivalent. A good working knowledge of Verilog or VHDL is essential. This is not suitable as a first course in a hardware description language.
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| Course Objectives |
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- To prepare the student to be an entry-level industrial standard cell ASIC verification engineer.
- To give the student an understanding of issues and tools related to ASIC verification, with a focus on the methodologies supported by the SystemVerilog language.
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| Course Requirements |
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Item |
Contribution |
Labs |
20% |
Project 1 |
20% |
Project 2 |
30% |
Midterm |
10% |
Final Exam |
20% |
Important Note:
Please note that verification, SytemVerilog and the associated tools are VERY new. There will be problems, etc. that will have to be overcome as they occur.
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| Textbooks |
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C. Spear, System Verilog for Verification (Kluwer), 2006.
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| Course Outline |
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- Students will be able to verify a complex digital functional block, finding most of the contained bugs, using SystemVerilog.
- Students will demonstrate an understanding of the basic methodologies used in ASIC Verification and their implementation using SystemVerilog.
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| Computer and Internet Requirements |
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| Instructor |
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Dr. Meeta Yadav
445 Monteith Research Centre
2410 Campus Shore Drive, Raleigh, NC-27606
E-mail: myadav@ncsu.edu
Home pages: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~myadav/Research/Home.html
http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/erl/faculty/paulf.html
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