This course must be completed by every student to gain knowledge and  foundational skills building for building a microchip. These include:

• Binary Numbers (what are they and how to convert into them and decode them)

• Logic Gates (converting logical expressions into logic gate schematics)

• Introduction to transistors and  Semiconductor fundamentals (what are they, how they work, an  how they are used)

• Manipulating Digital Logic (Combinations, functions, decoders, adding, latches, & flipflops)

This course enables students to build and fabricate their individual design   using Tiny Tapeout. This path  requires knowledge and skills as taught in the Foundational Path.  Students will learn to describe design functionality using Verilog which is then synthesized , placed and routed  Synthesis using OpenROAD.  Students learn basics about these design to manufacturing processes.  

This is the only path where they will receive a completed microchip for further testing and application. 

This path requires FUNDING!!! 

This is an in-depth course that teaches chip design from functional specification to final place-and-route.   This path  requires knowledge and skills as taught in the Foundational Path. Students will learn details about functional specification in Verilog, the complete RTL-GDSII flow in OpenROAD.  This includes design flow stages and analyses from synthesis, floorplanning, detailed PnR (place-and-route). 

The final layout file can be used for verification or fabrication in any supported foundry.