Development of Curriculums for Education of VLSI System Design.

本项目旨在为高校VLSI系统设计教育开发课程和教材，这些课程和教材应由教育机构自行安排。自1997年以来，VDEC(东京大学VLSI设计教育中心)开始定期为日本大学提供芯片实施和CAD工具分销服务。与VDEC的活动相对应，我们致力于VDEC用户设计环境的开发、VDEC新服务的试运行和利用VDEC的服务实施教育课程。我们在九州大学、京都大学和早稻田大学的合作下，为VDEC开发了两套单元库。为了验证单元库，我们使用这些单元库设计了几个VLSI芯片。我们还设计了其他芯片，用于建立新引入的工艺和LPGA。这些设计是在以下大学完成的：东京、京都、早稻田、九州、广岛市、九州理工学院、东北、大阪和庆应义乌。基于以上芯片设计经验，我们开发了VLSI系统设计教育课程。在一些大学，这些课程被应用到课堂上。我们还回顾了一本使用VDEC服务进行VLSI设计的教科书，并制作了使用本项目开发的库的教程。包括教育微处理器板、模拟器和CAE工具在内的几种教材已经实现，并通过WWW向公众开放。

This project aims to develop curriculums and teaching materials for education of VLSI system design in universities, which should be arranged by the own hands of educational organizations. Since 1997, VDEC (VLSI design and education center of University of Tokyo) started their regular services of chip implementation and distribution of CAD tools for Japanese universities. Corresponding to the activities of VDEC,we pursued the development of design environment for VDEC users, test run for the new service of VDEC and implementation of education curriculums using services of VDEC.We have developed two sets of cell libraries for VDEC under the cooperation of Kyushu Univ., Kyoto Univ.and Waseda Univ.In order to verify the cell libraries, we designed several VLSI chips using the libraries. We also design other chips for establishing a newly introduced process and LPGA's. The designs were done in the following universities : Tokyo, Kyoto, Waseda, Kyushu, Hiroshima City, Kyushu Institute of Technologies, Tohohashi, Osaka, and Keio. The libraries will open for all VDEC users from 1998.Based on the above experiences of chip designs, we have developed curriculums of VLSI system design education. The curriculums are applied to classes in some universities. We also reviewed a textbook for VLSI design using VDEC service and made tutorial courses of usage of the libraries developed in this project. Several teaching materials including educational microprecessor boards, simulators and CAE tools have implemented and opened for public through WWW.