本课程是微电子科学与工程专业本科生的专业选修课，面向先进集成电路设计的产业需求，围绕EDA设计方法学，重点培养学生从事复杂数字集成电路的硬件架构设计、RTL电路建模与仿真验证、芯片设计和实现能力，建立从理论知识到芯片设计实践的贯通。
本次课程设计包含四个可选择的设计题目，分别为面向H.266的运动估计电路、基于Mesh结构NoC、CNN加速器等。课程将重点论证满足不同应用需求的上述电路的硬件结构设计、电路的RTL建模与功能仿真、电路的逻辑综合与时序分析、电路的物理综合与芯片版图设计等内容。通过本课程，学生要初步学会依靠团队使用主流EDA前端和后端工具从事数字芯片的设计，支持学生运用先进工具完成复杂的数字集成电路设计开发工作。
IC industry is of one of strategic and emerging industries in China. Based on cutting-edge IC applications and advanced chip design technologies, The Curriculum design of digital integrated circuit design is focused on ability training on VLSI hardware architecture design, RTL modeling for Integrated Circuit, chip design and layout implementation with advanced EDA tools.
There are four topics for students to select, including motion estimation circuits design for H.266 standard, Mesh-based Network-on-Chip and CNN accelerator. The course will focus on energy-efficient hardware architecture design for different applications, circuit modeling and RTL functional simulation, logic synthesis and circuit timing analysis, physical synthesis and chip design are major contents of the curriculum. After the course, students may have the ability to design a real IC chip independently by using the current popular front-end and back-end EDA tools.
