What you'll learn:
- What does UPF mean and why is it required?
- UPF Low Power Design
- UPF Low Power Verification
- Learn a new skill that will help prepare for a Job in the Semiconductor Industry
Exhaustive course spanning across 6+ hours of on-demand video lectures.
Comprises of 4 major sub-sections:
Need of UPF and UPF Basics (~1 hour 1 min)
+ VLSI Design Phases
+RTL Simulation Vs Power Aware UPF Simulation
+ UPF Basics
UPF Power Aware Design (~2 hours 51 mins)
+ Power Domains
+ Supply Nets/Ports – Power Supply Network
+ Supply Sets – Power Supply Network
+ Power Switches
+ Power State Table
+ Level Shifters
+ Isolation Cells
+ Input Vs Output Isolation Cells
+ Retention Cells
+ Flat UPF Vs Hierarchical UPF
+ UPF Evolution 1.0 Vs 2.0 Vs 2.1 Vs 3.0
UPF Power Aware Verification (~2 hours 4 mins)
+ Popular Power Saving Techniques
+ Static Verification
+ Dynamic Verification 1 – Controlling Power Supplies
+ Dynamic Verification 2 – Simstate Modelling
+ Dynamic Verification 3 – Power Coverage
+ Dynamic Verification 4 – Low Power Assertions
Miscellaneous Concepts (~11* mins)
+ Instrumentation Vs Instantiation
+ Hard Macros and Liberty Files
* New lectures might be added based upon popular user feedback and request.
