Introduction to Logic Synthesis (Video Course)

The course covers the following topics

  • Introduction
  • Hardware Description Languages (HDL)
  • HDL Coding Styles
  • RTL Design Guidelines
  • Guidelines for Naming
  • Guidelines Reset and Clocks
  • Sync/Async Resets
  • Register initialization
  • Blocking vs non blocking
  • Coding style to avoid latches
  • Multiple always blocks vs FSMs
  • What is logic synthesis?
  • Why do logic synthesis?
  • Goals of Logic Synthesis
  • Synthesis flow
  • Libraries and Standard Cells
  • Generic Logic Libraries
  • Technology Specific Logic Libraries
  • Clock cells
  • ECO Cells
  • Physical Aware synthesis
  • Boolean techniques and minimization
  • Timing Constraints for synthesis
  • Timing paths (I/O, reg to reg)
  • Area and Power constraints
  • Driving Cells
  • Technology Mapping
  • Examples: Encoder Synthesis
  • Operators synthesis
  • Arithmetic Expressions synthesis
  • Other Verilog constructs synthesis
  • Control and Datapath synthesis
  • How is clock gating inferred?
  • Resizing, Cloning and Buffering
  • Decomposition and Swapping
  • Retiming
  • DFT and Scan readiness
  • Scan synthesis
  • Synthesis timing reports
  • Post synthesis output data
  • SCAN-DEF
  • Common gotchas
  • Assigns statements handling in netlist
  • Special characters in netlist
  • change_names
  • bit blasting
  • uniquify
  • Equivalence checking
  • Equivalence checking for clock gating
  • Summary
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