VSD Intern – 10-bit DAC design using eSim and Sky130

VSD Intern – 10-bit DAC design using eSim and Sky130, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.15, with 14 lectures, based on 109 reviews, and has 787 subscribers.

You will learn about eSim tool usage and installation DAC IP design – hierarchical approach Basic circuit design using eSim and Sky130 This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner VLSI students curious to know about eSim and circuit design or Expert VLSI Physical designers curious to know about custom IP design using real foundry PDKs like Sky130 It is particularly useful for Beginner VLSI students curious to know about eSim and circuit design or Expert VLSI Physical designers curious to know about custom IP design using real foundry PDKs like Sky130.

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Summary

Title: VSD Intern – 10-bit DAC design using eSim and Sky130

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.15

Number of Lectures: 14

Number of Published Lectures: 14

Number of Curriculum Items: 14

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 14

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

eSim tool usage and installation
DAC IP design – hierarchical approach
Basic circuit design using eSim and Sky130

Who Should Attend

Beginner VLSI students curious to know about eSim and circuit design
Expert VLSI Physical designers curious to know about custom IP design using real foundry PDKs like Sky130

Target Audiences

Beginner VLSI students curious to know about eSim and circuit design
Expert VLSI Physical designers curious to know about custom IP design using real foundry PDKs like Sky130

Most of the signals around us, in the world we live in are not digital in nature, rather they are analog. The digital systems can understand only digital signals, not analog. Hence, it becomes important to interface the digital systems we the external analog world. The analog input signals are to be converted to digital signals using Analog to Digital Converters at the input end of the digital system. After the processing by the system, the digital signals are to be converted back into analog signals using Digital to Analog Converters.

A n-bit Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) takes a n-bit digital word and converts it into a proportional analog voltage with respect to the reference voltage. The potentiometric DAC uses the concept of Voltage Divider. In an N-bit DAC, the analog voltage range, i.e. the Vref (here 3.3 V) is equally divided into 2^N voltage values. This is achieved by a series on 2^N equal resistors and taps are provided across each R. The combination of switches to tap the values is designed using the N-bit digital word as input.

This circuit was designed using eSim

eSim (previously known as Oscad / FreeEDA) is a free/libre and opensource EDA tool for circuit design, simulation, analysis and PCB design. It is an integrated tool built using free/libre and opensource software such as KiCad, Ngspice and GHDL. eSim is released under GPL.

eSim offers similar capabilities and ease of use as any equivalent proprietary software for schematic creation, simulation and PCB design, without having to pay a huge amount of money to procure licenses. Hence it can be an affordable alternative to educational institutions and SMEs. It can serve as an alternative to commercially available/licensed software tools like OrCAD, Xpedition and HSPICE.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Basic 10-bit DAC design

Chapter 2: eSim Tool installation, circuit design and simualtion

Lecture 1: eSim installation and basic switch design

Lecture 2: Steps to label and simulate using eSim

Chapter 3: DAC circuit design implementation using eSim

Lecture 1: Implement 2-bit DAC using switch

Lecture 2: 2-Bit DAC working

Lecture 3: From 2-bit DAC to 10-bit DAC using eSim symbols

Chapter 4: DAC layout using MAGIC

Lecture 1: Layout and post-layout introduction

Lecture 2: Layout of resistor

Lecture 3: Design of switch layout

Lecture 4: Labelling, extraction and post-layout simulation

Lecture 5: Design of 2-bit DAC layout

Lecture 6: 10-bit DAC Layout Design

Chapter 5: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Conclusion

Instructors

Kunal Ghosh
Digital and Sign-off expert at VLSI System Design(VSD)
Sameer S Durgoji
VLSI Design Enthusiast

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 4 votes
2 stars: 3 votes
3 stars: 15 votes
4 stars: 34 votes
5 stars: 53 votes

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