====== EE5333: Introduction to Physical Design Automation (Jan-May 2026) ======
===== Instructor =====
  * [[https://srampras.github.io/|S. Ramprasath]]
===== Classrooms =====
  * ESB128
===== Schedule =====
Tu 11-11:50am\\
We 10-10:50am\\
Th 8-8:50am\\
Fr 5-5:50pm\\

=====Evaluation=====
  * Mid-semester written examination (30%)
  * End-semester project (35%)
  * Programming assignments (35%)

All assignments and projects will be evaluated on the docker image: [[https://hub.docker.com/r/srampr/ee5333|srampr/ee5333]]

===== Text book =====
  * VLSI Physical Design: From Graph Partitioning to Timing Closure [2nd edition], A. B. Kahng, J. Lienig, I. L. Markov, and J. Hu. 
 If you are an IITM student, you should be able to download this book from [[https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9591-6|here]] using your ldap authentication.

===== References =====
  * VLSI Physical Design Automation: Theory and Practice [1st ed.], S. M. Sait and H. Youssef.
  * Handbook of Algorithms for Physical Design Automation [1st ed.], C. J. Alpert, D. P. Mehta, S. S. Sapatnekar.

=====Tutorials=====
Python/C++ version of the tutorials are available [[https://github.com/srini229/EE5333_tutorials/|here.]]