University Catalog 2024-2025

ASIC Design & Verification (Certificate)

The Graduate Certificate in Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) Design and Verification (ADV) Technologies provides students with advanced academic credentials in the algorithmic, chip, circuit, system and antenna technologies that will underpin ADV Wireless systems. Advanced silicon chips, including ASIC, power the remarkable systems we rely on every day. They serve as the foundation for everything from smartphones to wearables and from smart medical devices to autonomous cars.

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Eligibility

Students must meet ONE of the following requirements for admission into the ADV Graduate Certificate Program:

  • Have a BS degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering from a regionally accredited four-year college or university, and have an overall GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4-point scale.
  • Have a BS degree in the sciences or engineering from a regionally accredited four-year college or university with an overall GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4-point scale.
  • Be a degree-seeking student in good standing in an NC State University graduate program in the sciences or engineering.

Applicant Information

  • Delivery Method: On-Campus, Online, Hybrid
  • Entrance Exam: None
  • Interview Required: None

Application Deadlines

  • Fall: January 9
  • Spring: July 1
Required Courses12
ASIC and FPGA Design with Verilog
ASIC Verification
Advanced Functional Verification with Universal Verification Methodology
VLSI Systems Design
Electronic System Level and Physical Design
Total Hours12

Faculty

Full Professors

  • David E Aspnes
  • B. Jayant Baliga
  • Mesut E. Baran
  • Salah M. A. Bedair
  • Subhashish Bhattacharya
  • Donald L. Bitzer
  • Alper Yusuf Bozkurt
  • Gregory T Byrd
  • Rada Yuryevna Chirkova
  • Mo-Yuen Chow
  • Huaiyu Dai
  • William Rhett Davis
  • Alexandra Duel-Hallen
  • Michael James Escuti
  • Do Young Eun
  • Brian Allan Floyd
  • Paul D. Franzon
  • Edward F. Gehringer
  • John J. Grainger
  • Edward Grant
  • Robert Wendell Heath
  • Brian L Hughes
  • Iqbal Husain
  • Ki Wook Kim
  • Frederick Anthony Kish Jr.
  • Robert Michael Kolbas
  • Hamid Krim
  • Ning Lu
  • Srdjan Miodrag Lukic
  • Leda Lunardi
  • Thomas Kenan Miller III
  • Veena Misra
  • Rainer Frank Mueller
  • John F. Muth
  • H. Troy Nagle Jr.
  • Jagdish Narayan
  • Arne Nilsson
  • Omer Oralkan
  • Mehmet Cevdet Ozturk
  • Harilaos George Perros
  • Douglas Stephen Reeves
  • Eric Rotenberg
  • Georgios Rouskas
  • Xipeng Shen
  • Mihail Lorin Sichitiu
  • Zlatko Sitar
  • Matthias F. M. Stallmann
  • Daniel D. Stancil
  • Michael B. Steer
  • J. K. Townsend
  • James Tuck
  • Daryoosh Vashaee
  • John Victor Veliadis
  • Ioannis Viniotis
  • Mladen Alan Vouk
  • Wenye Wang
  • Jonathan Wierer
  • Fen Wu
  • Huiyang Zhou

Associate Professors

  • Jacob James Adams
  • Dror Zeev Baron
  • Michela Becchi
  • Aranya Chakrabortty
  • Hantao Cui
  • Alexander G. Dean
  • Ismail Guvenc
  • Khaled Abdel Hamid Harfoush
  • Michael W. Kudenov
  • David S. Lalush
  • Edgar Lobaton
  • Zeljko Pantic
  • Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic
  • David Ricketts
  • Nitin Sharma
  • Cranos M. Williams

Assistant Professors

  • Aydin Aysu
  • Amay Jairaj Bandodkar
  • Michael Daniele
  • Demitry Farfurnik
  • Caterina M. Gallippi
  • Yaoyao Jia
  • Shih-Chun Lin
  • Yuan Liu
  • Spyridon Pavlidis
  • Bradley Galloway Reaves
  • Muhammad Shahzad
  • Wenyuan Tang
  • Chau-Wai Wong
  • Tianfu Wu
  • Kaixiong Zhou

Practice/Research/Teaching Professors

  • Jordan Besnoff
  • Gregory Edward Bottomley
  • Laura J Bottomley
  • James Paul Dieffenderfer
  • Robert Joseph Evans
  • John Gajda
  • Rachana Ashok Gupta
  • Seth E. Hollar
  • Douglas C. Hopkins
  • Fu-Chen Hsaio
  • Andrew J. Rindos III
  • Steven D. Jackson
  • Robert Dwight Oden Jr.
  • Bongmook Lee
  • David Lee Lubkeman
  • Hatice Orun Ozturk
  • Tania Milkova Paskova
  • James Lee Reynolds
  • Elena Nicolescu Veety
  • Leonard Wilson White
  • Donna G Yu
  • Wensong Yu

Professors Emeritus

  • George F. Bland
  • John R. Hauser
  • Wilbur Carroll Peterson
  • Winser E. Alexander PhD
  • Tildon H Glisson Jr
  • Michael A. Littlejohn
  • Carlton M. Osburn
  • Sarah Ann Rajala
  • Wesley E. Snyder

Adjunct Faculty

  • Mihail Devetsikiotis
  • Yan Solihin

Teaching Associate Professors

  • Mihail Cutitaru
  • Frederick J. Livingston