Growth Paths / ECE elective: Digital IC Design with Open Tools
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Resources for this path
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MIT 6.374 Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits (Fall 2003, Anantha Chandrakasan) ↗Course
Free MIT course: lecture notes, problem sets and exams.
Free, open process design kit for a real 130 nm chip process.
Magic VLSI ↗Course
Free, open-source chip layout editor with design-rule checks.
Netgen ↗Course
Free layout-versus-schematic (LVS) checker for Magic layouts.
Xschem ↗Course
Free schematic editor for ngspice simulations.
ngspice ↗Course
Free, open-source SPICE circuit simulator.
OpenLane 2 ↗Course
Free RTL-to-layout flow for the SKY130 process.