Week 1: Introduction: modern VLSI design flow; CAD paradigms; Algorithms 101 (correctness, performance, complexity). Week 2-3: Partitioning: hypergraph vs. graph modeling; Kernighan-Lin Heuristic; ...

Manual parameter selection remains industrial practice despite being excessively laborious and limited by expert experience. To address this issue, we present CROP, the first large language model (LLM ...

Due to world class course content and rigorous evaluation criterions, these courses lift the knowledge of the students in VLSI Design domain to the professional level. This proficiency in VLSI Design ...