Design focused on understanding impacts on performance,
understanding basics of what may happen if something is incorrect or
pushing a design limit, and knowing what to consider and ask for when
working with designers on issues and improvements.
Learning
Objectives: Understand how device physics at the transistor level
relates to product behavior, understand the basics of a Process Design
Kit (PDK), Understand how SPICE models relate to the design process.
Understand how the process variables impact yield, understand the
importance of yield parameters like speed, leakage, voltage,
temperature, etc., understand the tradeoffs involved when choosing
different transistor threshold voltages and sizings