ASIC Design Essentials

Duration: 2 days
Course Part Number: 230781
Price: 1000 USD

Description

With the relentless and continuously growing competition, Customer Support to your foundry customers is now no longer limited to providing the wafer or the assembled and tested die. While the process manufacturing technology still remains a vital factor for a foundry, aspects like design support, testability support, libraries and IP support etc. have gained prominence. To climb up further in the foundry support value chain, one needs to address various issues arising in these areas too. And to correctly address them and hence more effectively support your foundry customers, it has become essential for your Biz Development and Customer Engineering staff to understand the issues involved. Knowledge of the complete IC development chain is an added advantage. Customer Support staff communicating effectively and proactively addressing their Foundry Customer in his IC implementation activity has become a niche and differentiating factor in today’s competitive world.

This course is aimed to provide this basic understanding and know how required to enable your Customer Support Engineering staff to provide an effective and proactive support to your foundry customer. This course also provides a well-structured guideline to Business Development engineers and their Business Managers to be used as a reference for the foundry biz. Technology and Product Development Engineers can also benefit from useful insight.

The course is structured into modules.  Short interactive workshops within the course facilitate in making this an interesting, interactive learning experience. Participants will be exposed to issues cited from real industry experience.

This course will be conducted by an experienced VLSI consultant with extensive exposure in marketing, supporting & managing IC projects on a global scale with a well known multinational semiconductor company.

What You Will Learn

• Basics of Design Libraries and IPs, IC Design Flow, Technology, Trends
• Basics of Verification especially DFM/DFY
• A basic understanding of economics involved and generic issues arising during foundry design support
• These in turn will enable you in
• • How to effectively communicate with your customers
  • How to effectively support your customers
  • How to effectively grow your biz

Who Should Attend

• Customer Support Engineers
• Business Development Engineers
• Product Development Engineers
• Technology Development Engineers
• Business Managers

Prerequisite

Basic engineering know how. 1-2 years experience in IC design/support is preferable.

Course Methodology

This course is conducted in a seminar room.  The course will include brief interactive workshops like sessions to encourage participation and facilitate learning. Each participant will receive a set of course material.