Teaching introductory course in VLSI for graduate level program

Abstract

This paper describe the first VLSI graduate course details for students studying in the field of computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and information technology. An overview of how VLSI course is taught in universities world wide has been covered in this paper. The curriculum of the introductory course in VLSI in different parts of the world has been investigated in this paper. However, we focused on the teaching of the ldquointroduction to VLSI designrdquo course at our academic institution - University of Michigan at Dearborn. The paper also focuses on the CAD tools used by universities to enhance the proclivity of the students towards the course.