ece 260c. Spring 2026 at UC San Diego

About This Course#

State-of-the-art physical design methodologies are required to deliver the next generation of high-performance, high-efficiency chips. In this course, students will look beyond the standard VLSI RTL-to-GDS2 flow by learning how to apply complex scripting. At the same time, a new revolution in open-source EDA tools will allow students to both understand and modify the internals of the tools to achieve more than was previously possible. Students will learn to apply these methodologies with a backdrop of modern SoC design.

This is the course website for ECE 260C hosted at UC San Diego in the Spring 2026 quarter. The schedule and links to Piazza and the syllabus can be found below. Use the sidebar on the left to access lecture slides, resources, and assignments.

Schedule#

Subject to change so please check for updates regularly

Office Hours#

We will host office hours over Zoom on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 7 PM, not including March 30th. The Zoom meeting link can be found in the Syllabus.

Links#

The Syllabus can be found here.

Piazza can be found here. Students can use Piazza for Q&A, as well as to receive announcements. Important announcements will also be replicated via email.

Students should submit assignments via Gradescope, the invitation code for which can be found in the syllabus. Students will also use GitHub Classroom. You will set this up as part of Lab 0.