RTL Design And Verification
Program Highlights
- Duration: 3 Months
- Mode: Online & Offline
- Industry Grade Projects
- Certification Included
- One On One Mock Interviews
- Resume Building
Course Overview
The RTL & Design Verification program at QuantumCLK Academy is a hands-on, industry-focused training program designed to prepare engineers for real-world roles in digital design and functional verification.
This course is built around real silicon workflows, covering RTL design, verification methodologies, debugging practices, and project-based learning aligned with semiconductor industry standards
Module 1: RTL Design Fundamentals
- Digital logic fundamentals
- Combinational and sequential logic concepts
- Registers, flip-flops, counters, and shift registers
- RTL abstraction and design methodology
Introduction to Verilog HDL - Verilog module structure and port declarations
- Data types and signal declarations
- Continuous and procedural assignments
- Conditional and case statements
- Clocking mechanisms and reset strategies
- Blocking and non-blocking assignments
- Finite State Machine design (Moore-type)
Writing synthesizable RTL code
Module 2: Verification Fundamentals
- Importance of verification in VLSI design flow
- Design code versus verification code
- Introduction to SystemVerilog for verification
- Testbench architecture and organization
- Stimulus generation techniques
- Self-checking testbench concepts
- Tasks and functions in verification
- Introduction to assertions (immediate assertions)
- Debugging techniques using simulation results
- Identification and correction of common RTL errors
Module 3: RTL Best Practices & Capstone Project
- Industry-standard RTL coding guidelines
- Latch inference and prevention techniques
- FSM coding styles and optimization
- High-level overview of synthesis flow
- Basic timing concepts (setup and hold awareness)
- RTL integration considerations
Capstone Project
- Definition of design requirement
- RTL implementation of a digital block
- Development of a verification environment
- Functional validation through simulations
- Debugging and refinement
- Documentation and technical presentation
- Example project domains:
FIFO Controller
UART Transmitter
Bus Arbitration Logic
Post-Program Benefits
- Program Completion Certificate
- Capstone Project Certification
- Resume Building & Profile Optimization
- Mock Technical Interviews
- RTL Design & Verification Interview Preparation
- Project Review & Feedback
- Career Guidance Sessions
