Course Instructor
Dr.A.Ravishankar

Class structure
3 Lectures, 1 lab

Grading
Assignments - 60% (six assignments with 10% for each)
End-semester exam - 40%

Course Reference books
Synthesis and Optimization of Digital Circuits - Giovanni De Micheli Tata McGraw-Hill Edition (Available in Eswar book store, T.Nagar)
Electronic Circuit and System Simulation Methods - Chandramouli Visweswaraiah, Lawrence Pillage and Ronald Rohrer (No low-price edition of this book is available, however our library has a few copies)

Teaching Assistants for Lab Assignments

S.Aniket (ee99314@ee.iitm.ernet.in)
P.V.Nagaraju (ee03s002@ee.iitm.ernet.in)

Topics :
Introduction to CAD: Tools, Methodology and Flow
Advanced Boolean Algebra
Binary Decision Diagrams(BDD) and Algorithms using BDDs for formal verification of combinatorial and sequential circuits
Multi-level combinatorial optimization
Static Timing Analysis
Interconnect Analysis
Circuit Simulation Basics
DC and Transient Analysis
Model-order reduction of large linear systems

Maintained by A.Ravishankar