Graduate Certificate in Integrated Circuit Designs

Southern Methodist University

The Integrated Circuit Design Certificate offers courses and hands-on design experiences in digital, analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (IC) design using CMOS. The digital IC course (ECE 7356) includes VLSI digital circuits design from digital circuit synthesis using hardware description language, to transistor level design and optimization, and automatic place and route. The Analog IC course (ECE 7321) covers the design and simulations of high-gain and low-power amplifier which are one of the most important IC building blocks. Finally, the advanced-level courses (ECE 8355 and ECE 8356) cover two of the most widely used circuits for many IC applications: phase-locked loops (PLLs) and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). Industrial leading design tools such as Cadence will be used throughout these courses for design, implementation, simulations, and verification.