EC ENGR 201A · EE 201AVLSI Design Automation
Electrical and Computer Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Fundamentals of design automation of VLSI circuits and systems, including introduction to circuit and system platforms such as field programmable gate arrays and multicore systems; high-level synthesis, logic synthesis, and technology mapping; physical design; and testing and verification.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 115C.
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EC ENGR 201A
- EC ENGR 115CDigital Electronic Circuits
- EC ENGR 100Electrical and Electronic Circuits
- PHYSICS 1CPhysics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity4 more beneath
- EC ENGR 115AAnalog Electronic Circuits I
- COM SCI M51ALogic Design of Digital Systems
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