Function before syntax
Boolean behavior, state, and timing are defined before an HDL describes them.
Follow the signal from a Boolean requirement to working silicon.
Chip design is a chain of specifications and physical constraints. The curriculum keeps function, time, electrical behavior, verification evidence, manufacturing test, and silicon observations connected.
All twenty courses are complete and open: twelve foundation-to-silicon courses plus eight production bridges for one bounded digital ASIC.
01 / CURRICULUM
Twenty complete courses from Boolean requirements to production evidence.
The route now includes reproducible ASIC automation, PDK and IP qualification, advanced SoC verification, firmware co-design, package/board/laboratory engineering, product engineering, and an independently reviewed real-silicon capstone. Course completion alone remains distinct from design-release or production-release qualification.
No unfinished production bridges (0) +
These are real gaps, not optional decoration. They remain non-interactive until bilingual teaching, executable artifacts, independent reconstruction, and qualification boundaries are complete.
02 / WHY THIS ORDER
Each layer supplies evidence required by the next.
The route is organized by engineering dependency, not by tool popularity.
Specification before verification
A test can only provide evidence after expected behavior and forbidden behavior are explicit.
Logical and physical truth stay connected
A correct truth table does not prove timing, power, noise, manufacturability, or reliability.
Reports are claims, not decoration
Synthesis, coverage, timing, power, DRC, test, yield, and lab data must trace back to one versioned design and constraint set.
Specify, derive, trace, break, verify, and build.
- State the interface, clock, reset, state, legal inputs, outputs, latency, and failure behavior.
- Derive the circuit or protocol before writing tool-specific syntax.
- Trace ordinary, boundary, simultaneous, reset, and fault cases cycle by cycle.
- Use executable checks and a lab artifact to distinguish confidence from evidence.