VLSI Design Automation PPT PDF SLIDES
VLSI Design Automation 
Lecture Notes
Instructor: Prof. Shantanu Dutt
- Intro. Lecture Notes # 1: Introduction ppt 
 Auxiliary Intro notes: pdf
 
- Intro. Lecture Notes # 2 -- Chip Design Styles ppt 
 
- Lecture Notes # 3 -- High Level Synthesis--Intro ppt 
 
- Lecture Notes # 3b -- High Level Synthesis (courtesy of and copyrighted by Prof. Kia Bazargan) ppt 
 
- Lecture Notes # 3c -- Register Allocation in High Level Synthesis pdf 
 
- Lecture Notes # 4 -- VLSI Circuit Issues (no notes, actually :-(. But was done in class).
 
- Lecture Notes # 5 -- Partitioning (probability based) ps 
 pdf
 
- PROP Papers:
 Conference version: S. Dutt and W. Deng, ``A probability-based approach to VLSI circuit partitioning'', Proc. Design Automation Conference, June 1996, pp. 100-105.
 
 Journal version: S. Dutt and W. Deng, ``Probabilistic Approaches to VLSI Circuit Partitioning'', IEEE Trans. CAD, Vol. 19, No. 5, May 2000, pp. 534-549. ps(gzipped) , or pdf , or
 Print version only for teaching purpose: pdf
 
- Lecture Notes # 6 -- Multilevel Partitioning - Hmetis ppt 
 
- Lecture Notes # 7 -- Algorithmic Techniques in VLSI CAD ppt 
 
- Lecture Notes # 8 -- Floorplanning intro, simulated annealing and mixed integer programming formulation pdf 
 
- Lecture Notes # 8a -- Yet another (good) FP slide set pdf 
 
- Lecture Notes # 8b -- Sequence-pair based floorplanning technique: (courtesy of Karthik Chandramouli) pdf 
 
- Lecture Notes # 9 -- Intro to placement and basic PDP approach and rationale (hard copy)
 
- Lecture Notes # 9a -- Quadratic Placement: quadratic and linear WL objectives:
 Notes (i) pdf
 Notes (ii) ppt , pdf
 
- Lecture Notes # 9b -- Classical placement algorithms (min-cut, simulated annealing) pdf 
 
- Lecture Notes # 9c -- Simultaneous level partitioning based PDP: ppt 
 
- Lecture Notes # 10 -- General and Channel Routing: ppt 
 
- Lecture Notes # 10a -- Maze and Line Routing: pdf 
 
- Lecture Notes # 10b -- Global Routing: pdf