ASIC Design & Verification Lecturer (Invited Instructor)

Short course / Workshop, CERN INFIERI School (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), 2021

Delivered a 5-day lecture + hands-on lab series on end-to-end ASIC design and verification to an international cohort (~20+ students).

Topics covered

  • RTL design methodology (Verilog)
  • Testbenching & verification strategy
  • Synthesis and timing closure
  • Place & Route (P&R)
  • Physical verification: DRC/LVS, extraction
  • Signoff flows and best practices

Materials / labs

  • Designed lab exercises and automation scripts so students could run full flows with minimal setup friction.
  • Provided templates for verification and backend flow orchestration.