ELEN E6350 VLSI Design Lab

Welcome to the home page of ELEN E6350 VLSI Design Lab for Spring 2025.

This graduate course focuses on the design, simulation, layout, verification, and tape-out of an IC design. The students design the chip in the spring semester. Those chips are fabricated during the summer, and the students test the chips and create the demos in the fall semester.

The instructor of the course in 2025 is Prof. Mingoo Seok. The TAs are Mosom Jana, Da Won Kim (for Spring), and Chuan-Tung Lin (for Fall)

This year, we taped out five digital chips, and all of them are working! This is a great success, as these chips are complex! These projects could not have been successful without the dedication and hard work of the students and TAs. Kudos to them!

We sincerely thank Apple Inc. for sponsoring the chip fabrication, and we extend special appreciation to Dr. Joao Cerqueira for his support as the course liaison. We also thank the EE department for its continuous support, and we are truly appreciative of the invaluable assistance provided by Richard Lee, Yoel Rio, and Nancy B. Cuffy. Last but not least, we appreciate Prof. Peter Kinget, the instructor from previous years, provided numerous pieces of advice throughout the year.

Enjoy the presentation videos and project websites, and do not hesitate to send us your feedback. The contact information of the students is included.

Last, but not least, take a look at the work from students in earlier years; Check out the 2024, the 2023, the 2022, the 2016, the 2015, or the 2014 course pages.