Course description: |
This course helps students understand logic synthesis, the transformation from a multilevel circuit description to an optimal gate description. This course deals with the design of exact and approximate algorithms for logic synthesis that form the basis for VLSI Computer-Aided Design (CAD) design tools. Topics include synthesis of two-level circuits, synthesis of multi-level circuits, synthesis of state machines. At the same time, this subject also helps students know how to use HDL in designing combinational systems, sequential systems and FSM. |