EE5333: Introduction to Physical Design Automation (Jan-May 2026)

• S. Ramprasath

• ESB128

Tu 11-11:50am
We 10-10:50am
Th 8-8:50am
Fr 5-5:50pm

• Mid-semester written examination (30%)
• End-semester project (35%)
• Programming assignments (35%)

All assignments and projects will be evaluated on the docker image: srampr/ee5333

• 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 here using your ldap authentication.

• 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.

Python/C++ version of the tutorials are available here.