Chip Design Courses and Certifications

Coursera

Introduction to Chip Design with Open-Source EDA Tools

Design chip layouts with free EDA tools: build layouts in Magic, simulate and validate logic circuits with NGSPICE, and work through KiCAD and OpenROAD workflows.

• Coursera
• 2 hours 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Robert Feranec

How to Design Your Own Chip and How to Build It for Free - With Matt Venn

An accessible walkthrough of designing a digital chip in Verilog, converting it to silicon layout with OpenLane, and submitting it for open-source fabrication.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Robert Feranec

How to Design and Manufacture Your Own Chip - Step-by-Step Guide

1 rating

Comprehensive guide to designing and manufacturing custom chips, covering schematic creation, simulation, layout, and production processes. Includes practical examples and resources for beginners and enthusiasts.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Conf42

Adaptive Power Optimization - Battery-Operated Chip Design

Master adaptive power optimization techniques for battery-operated chip design, covering calculation challenges, methodologies, automation, and implementation best practices.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

EDGE AI FOUNDATION

Empowering Collaborative Chip Design: Leveraging Generative AI for Custom Accelerators and Edge AI Innovation

Explore how generative AI and collaborative platforms revolutionize chip design, enabling custom accelerators and optimized solutions for edge AI applications and machine learning models.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

VSD - Physical Design Flow

3420 ratings at Udemy

Work through the industrial VLSI physical design flow: floorplanning, placement, timing analysis with ideal clocks, clock tree synthesis, routing with DRC, and parasitics extraction.

• Udemy
• 6 hours 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

NPTEL-NOC IITM

VLSI Design Flow: RTL to GDS - Course Introduction

Explore the VLSI design flow from RTL to GDS, covering essential concepts and processes in chip design and fabrication.

• YouTube
• 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to System on Chip Design

A beginner’s course about the design and architecture of System-on-Chip (SoC) devices. Learn how today’s smart systems integrate computing, memory, and I/O on a single chip.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Robert Feranec

How Chips Are Designed

1 rating

Explore how full-custom analog and millimeter-wave ASICs are designed, from schematics and simulation through layout, packaging, and ESD protection.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

tinyML

TinyML Talks - SRAM Based In-Memory Computing for Energy-Efficient AI Inference

A technical talk on SRAM-based in-memory computing, from analog memory-array circuits and ADCs to accelerator architectures for energy-efficient AI inference.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

VLSI Design Flow: RTL to GDS

Dive into the VLSI design flow from RTL to GDS, exploring key concepts and processes with Prof. Sneh Saurabh of IIIT Delhi in this comprehensive lecture.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

L&T EduTech Career Certificate

Chip based VLSI design for Industrial Applications

204 ratings at Coursera

Design digital and VLSI circuits: apply Boolean algebra and state machines, simulate CMOS chips in Electric VLSI, program VHDL in Xilinx ISE, and build FPGA systems in Vivado.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 4 courses

L&T EduTech

Fundamentals of Digital Design for VLSI Chip Design

146 ratings at Coursera

Design digital circuits for chip design: simplify Boolean expressions with Karnaugh maps and Quine McCluskey, build adders, multiplexers, flip-flops, counters, and FPGA/CPLD logic.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Toronto Machine Learning Series (TMLS)

Machine Learning for Chip Design and Architecture

Explore machine learning advancements with Azalia Mirhoseini's insights at TMLS2019, gaining valuable knowledge from a leading expert in the field.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scala Days Conferences

Scala Chip Design from Zero to Hero

Master hardware design using Scala 3 and DFiant HDL, from basic logic to chip fabrication via Tiny Tapeout—no prior hardware knowledge required!

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video