VLSI Design and ASIC Verification-Tailored for Working Professionals
Duration: 6 Months (Online)
Eligibility: BE, B.Tech, ME, M.Tech
Intermediate
Advanced Diploma in VLSI Design & Verification
100% JOB Assured with Globally Accepted Certificate
The AD / PG Diploma in VLSI Design & ASIC Verification is a comprehensive, industry-aligned, and career-focused program designed specifically for working professionals who want to build or transition their careers into the semiconductor and chip design industry.
This program equips learners with strong fundamentals in digital electronics, RTL design, verification methodologies, and modern ASIC design flows. It bridges the gap between existing experience and real-world industry requirements by providing hands-on experience with industry-standard tools, real-time project exposure, and practical design and verification techniques.
Participants gain in-depth knowledge of chip design processes, simulation, debugging, and verification environments, enabling them to confidently step into roles in VLSI Design, ASIC Verification, and Semiconductor Engineering.
The curriculum is carefully structured to match current semiconductor industry demands, helping professionals stay competitive in the rapidly growing VLSI and chip design ecosystem.
Program Overview
Advanced Diploma in VLSI Design
Duration: 300 Hours
Mode:
- Offline – 4 Hours per Day
- Online – 2 Hours per Day
- Hybrid Mode Available
PG Diploma in VLSI Design & ASIC Verification
Duration: 300 Hours
Mode:
- Offline – 4 Hours per Day
- Online – 2 Hours per Day
- Hybrid Mode Available
Why Choose This Program?
The VLSI and semiconductor industry demands professionals who have strong theoretical knowledge combined with practical design and verification experience. This program is designed to help learners build in-demand skills and become industry-ready through:
- Strong foundation in Digital Electronics and CMOS concepts
- Expertise in Verilog/SystemVerilog for RTL design
- Hands-on experience in ASIC Design Flow (Front-End)
- Practical knowledge of Functional Verification Methodologies (UVM)
- Experience with Simulation, Debugging, and Coverage Analysis
- Exposure to EDA tools used in semiconductor industries
- Real-time project development aligned with industry use cases
- Understanding of timing analysis and low-power design concepts
- Interview preparation and career support for successful job transitions
AD Diploma in VLSI Design & Verification
Modules
Core Engineering
- Digital Hardware Familiarization
- Digital Electronics, Logical circuit design
- Timing analysis
Core Programming Fundamentals
- Mastering C++
- Mastering OOP using C++
Certification in Programming
VLSI Design
- RTL Coding with Verilog
- Digital circuits design with different modeling styles
- On-Chip Protocols Design
- FPGA Programming
Projects:
- Combinational & Sequential Circuits (Adders, Counters, FSM)
- RTL Design using Verilog
- ALU Design
- UART / SPI / I2C Protocol Design
- FPGA Implementation
Platform:
- Verilog HDL
- Xilinx Vivado
- ModelSim / EDA Playground
- Artix-7 FPGA
- Linux
PG Diploma in VLSI Design & ASIC Verification
Modules
Core Engineering
- Digital Hardware Familiarization
- Digital Electronics, Logical circuit design
- Timing analysis
Core Programming Fundamentals
- Mastering C++
- Mastering OOP using C++
Certification in Programming
VLSI Design
- RTL Coding with Verilog
- Digital circuits design with different modeling styles
- On-Chip Protocols Design
- FPGA Programming
SPECIALIZATIONS:
VLSI Verification using System Verilog
- Design and Verification using System Verilog
- OOPs in System Verilog
- Randomization & Constraints
- Functional Coverage
- Test bench development
ASIC Verification using UVM
- Verification using UVM (Universal Verification Methodology)
- On-Chip Protocols Verification
- Python Scripting
- TCL scripting
- Timing Verification
- Static Timing Analysis
Certification: PG Diploma in VLSI Design & ASIC Verification
Projects
- CPU / Controller RTL Design
- AXI4 Protocol Design
- FPGA System Implementation
- System Verilog Testbench
- UVM Verification
- STA & Timing Analysis
- Python/TCL Automation
- Capstone: ASIC Design & Verification Flow
Platforms
- System Verilog & UVM
- Vivado, QuestaSim
- FPGA (Artix-7 / Zynq)
- Yosys, OpenTimer
- Python, TCL
- Linux
| Core Engineering | ||
|---|---|---|
| Digital Hardware Familiarization – 40 hrs. – 10 Days – 2 weeks | ||
| Analog Electronics: Ohm’s Law, RC Circuits, Power Supply Basics | Diodes, Rectifiers, Zener & Clamping Circuits | BJTs and MOSFETs (Switching & Amplification |
| Operational Amplifiers (Op-Amps), Filters, Comparators | Digital Electronics & Logic Design: Number Systems & Boolean Algebra | Logic Gates, Multiplexers, Encoders/Decoders |
| Flip-Flops, Counters, Shift Registers, | FSMs | Timing Analysis |
| Core Programming Fundamentals | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mastering OOP using C++ & Competitive problem solving – 60 hrs. – 15 Days – 3 weeks | ||
| Master in C Programming: Simple C program structure | Literals, Constants, | Variables and Data types |
| Arrays | Sorting and searching | Strings |
| Mastering in C++ with OOPs concepts: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming | Understanding OOP concepts | Objects |
| Understanding namespace | Classes | Basic input/output: cin, cout, endl |
| Abstraction | Encapsulation, | Access Specifiers – Private and Protected, |
| This pointer | Constructors and Destructors | Friends and operator overloading |
| This pointer | Constructors and Destructors | Friends and operator overloading |
| Inheritance | Run time polymorphism | Exception Handling |
| Lambda Expression | Smart Pointers Templates | STL Problem Solving using Hacker rank |
| VLSI Design | ||
|---|---|---|
| RTL Coding with Verilog – 60 hrs. – 15 Days – 3 weeks | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO VLSI: Fundamentals of VLSI | Design Methodology | Verilog data types, Verilog Operators |
| GATE LEVEL MODELING: Gate Instantiate | Design RTL From logic Diagram, Logic Gate primitive | Delay in Gate level Design |
| DATA FLOW MODELING: Operators in Data Flow | Continuous Assignment (assign statement) | Boolean Equations Representation |
| Gate-level Abstraction using Data Flow | Conditional Assignment (Ternary Operator? | Procedural continuous Assignment Statement |
| Procedural vs Continuous Assignment | Parameterized Data Flow Design Delay Modeling in Data Flow | Case Studies / Examples (ALU, Adders, MUX, Encoders) |
| BEHAVIORAL MODELING: Structured procedural Statement: Always Statement, Procedural Statement | Blocking Statement, Non-Blocking statement | Timing Control Statement: Delay based timing control; Event Based timing control |
| Conditional Statement: If else statement, case statement: casex, casez | Loop: While, do while, for, for each, forever, repeat. | Block statement; Sequential block, Parallel Block |
| De-assign Statement, force statement, Release statement | DESIGN OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS: FSM: Mealy machine, Moore machine | Flip-flops |
| Counters, Shift Registers | All combinational and sequential circuits using Verilog | CRC checking, PWM |
| DESIGN OF DIGITAL CIRCUITS: FSM: Mealy machine, Moore machine | Flip-flops | Counters, Shift Registers |
| Useful of Modeling Technique | All combinational and sequential circuit using Verilog | Delay Control Statement: Intra delay, inter delay, rise delay, fall delay |
| Procedural continuous, Assignment Statement | De-assign Statement, force statement, Release statement | CRC checking, PWM |
| On-Chip Protocols Design – 20 hrs. – 5 Days – 1 weeks | ||
| UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) protocol | SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) protocol | I2C (Inter Integrated Circuit) protocol |
| AXI4 (Advanced extensible Interface 4) protocol | ||
| FPGA Programming – 40 hrs. – 10 Days – 2 weeks | ||
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to FPGA | FPGA Architecture | CLB, I/O blocks, Interconnects |
| CPLD, FPGA, FPGA Working, | Design Flow, Tool Understanding | working Designing basic FPGS example (Adders, Subtractors, Counter) |
| Implementation of all the combinational circuits on FPGA | Implementation of Flip-flops on FPGA | Implementation of Counters- up counter, down counter, up-down counter, modcounter, Johnson counter, ring counter |
| Realization of Shift Registersv | Realization of FSM: Mealy machine, Moore machine, Designing with VIO and ILA | Demonstration of a Project on FPGA |
| Experiential Project based learning | ||
| Project: Digital design innovators: RTL to realization | ||
| Specializations | ||
|---|---|---|
| VLSI Verification using System Verilog | ||
| Design and Verification using System Verilog – 100 hrs. – 25 Days – 5 weeks | ||
| Introduction of System Verilog, Need of system Verilog | Environment of Verification | Data types-2satete, 4 state, enum ,string, structure, union, class |
| Array- Fixed array- packed and unpacked array | Dynamic Array, Associative array | Queues |
| Process: - Fork-join, Fork-join any, Fork- join none, Wait-fork | OOPS-Inheritance, Polymorphism, Data hiding, Encapsulation | Class- Deep copy, shallow copy,Overriding class, Coverage: Functional Coverage, Cross coverage. |
| Explanation of assertion with example | Explanation of coverage with example | Working on verification environment |
| ASIC Verification using UVM | ||
| Verification using UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) – 60 hrs. – 15 Days – 3 weeks | ||
| Introduction UVM: why UVM | UVM Objects: Base classes | UVM Macros, UVM Base Class Methods |
| UVM Phases, UVM Config DB, UVM Reporting Mechanism | UVM TLM Ports, Analysis, FIFO, UVM socket concept, UVM Callbacks | UVM test Bench Components and UVM test Benches. |
| On-Chip Protocols Verification – 20 hrs. – 5 Days – 1 weeks | ||
| UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) protocol | SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) protocol | I2C (Inter Integrated Circuit) protocol |
| AXI4 (Advanced eXtensible Interface 4)protocol | ||
| Experiential Project based learning | ||
| Project: Functional Verification: System Verilog to UVM | ||
| Python Scripting – 40 hrs. – 10 Days – 2 weeks | ||
| Python Fundamentals for Engineers | Data Structures and File Handling | Regular Expressions & Pattern Matching |
| Scripting for EDA Automation | Parsing Reports & Timing Files | Visualization & Reporting |
| Python for Verification & Testbenches | ||
| Timing Verification | ||
| Static Timing Analysis – 40 hrs. – 10 Days – 2 weeks | ||
| Introduction to RTL Linting and CDC | Introduction RTL Synthesis flow | Clocking and Clock domain/synchronization concepts |
| Timing Constraints Overview | Writing constraints | Submicron Process nodes and Technology libraries understanding |
| Synthesis process | Design optimization and netlist generation | Logic equivalence (LEC) /formality verification |
| Introduction to Static Timing Analysis,Terminologies in STA | Timing Fundamentals - Clock, reset,delays | Timing checks, Setup, Hold,Metastability etc |
| Understanding Timing Paths and types of timing paths | Timing checks | Timing Analysis for Combinational &Sequential Logic Circuits |
| Static Timing Analysis (STA) Flow understanding | Inputs and outputs of STA | Design rule violations |
| Timing exceptions | PVT corners and OCV | Understanding Setup and Usage of EDA tools relevant for Syntheis and STA |
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I am Dileep Kumar T, completed my M.Tech in the stream of VLSI from Dr. AIT, Bangalore in 2019. I joined Cranes Varsity and did my professional course in VLSI Design which includes Verilog, system Verilog, FPGA, and uvm. I had a very good experience with Cranes Varsity, I got multiple opportunities from CranesVaristy. Finally, I got placed in DELOPT as a VLSI Design Engineer
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I am Veena Jogannavar, who completed a B.E in the field of ECE in 2020 from Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology.I came to know about Cranes from my friend. I have undergone VLSI front-end design training and gained good knowledge in Digital electronics, Verilog, and System Verilog. I thank Cranes for providing opportunities for my career growth. At last, I got placed in DELOPT, Bangalore
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