In a typical design environment, one or two key Lead designers(Design Lead, Integration Lead, EDA Lead etc.) control the overall design environment and the rest of the team follows the set up as a default. One important requirements to become the Lead is that you need not only to be the master on one area (e.g.- RTL design,  Circuit design, Integration), rather you need to have the overall understanding of entire Methodology (Key components- Tools/ PDKs/ Standard Cell/ Technology files/ Config. file/ Debugging/ Version control etc. and the Flow- Input-output at each phase of the design, Tool interactions) for the design environment (Become the Go to person for the group/ company). This module will use a typical "custom design process" (schematic to parasitic simulation) as a reference flow, but the focus of the training will be to make you a "power user" with the overall design methodology.

• How to become an expert with custom design flow
• How to the get the best out of EDA tools and PDKs
• What are the most efficient ways of debugging
• Sample automation of entire custom flow

• Basic understandings of Custom design flow

• Steps/ Components for a Custom design flow
• Control/ Initialization files- Get the best out of EDA tools
• Technology files/ PDKs
• Efficient debugging- Tips and Tricks

• Coming soon…

• Analog designer
• Physical designer
• Layout designer
• Digital designer
• ASIC designer
• EDA/Methodology/ Flow Engineers
• EEs from small design companies/startup, responsible for several phases of the design.
• New EE/ CS college grad.

"Sharpen Your Saw!"