EE5333: Introduction to Physical Design Automation (Jan-May 2026)
Instructor
Classrooms
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: 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 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 here.