In this episode of Inside Electronics, Electronic Design’s mostly-Analog Editor Andy Turudic chats with Georgia Tech’s Professor Shaolan Li about their ECE department’s new analog IC design course. Close to a dozen teams of three undergrads and one graduate student are fully hands-on designing real silicon, from schematic through tapeout.
Resumption of the course in a returning semester will focus on performing functional verification, after fabrication on a 300-mm wafer by Texas Instruments.
The following companion article is a suggested read that contains many more details: