Enrico Pardi, Director of the Analogue Design Team at Apple Italia, will give a lecture on Power Management Unit (PMU) design to students at the University of Genoa.
The presentation describes how a Power Management Unit (PMU) ASIC is developed from the initial concept to a product in the field, and how the various teams involved collaborate throughout the process. It illustrates how system requirements are defined and translated into design specifications through consultation with the technology and packaging teams, and how these specifications lead to a floorplan. It then explains how analogue and digital design proceed in parallel, covering schematics and simulations, RTL, synthesis and place-and-route, and how design for testability, layout and top-level integration fit into the same flow. The discussion continues with the verification of the complete system through mixed-signal simulation and the decision to tape out. It outlines how silicon is manufactured, validated in the laboratory, tested in production and qualified for reliability, and how failures reported from the field are analysed and fed back into the process. It demonstrates how the work of numerous teams is broken down into tasks and dependencies and organised within a project plan. Finally, a few examples of the design, failure analysis and test flows are also illustrated.
The lecture will take place on Friday 27 November, 2–4 pm, in the Conference Room (D3) of the DITEN Department, Via Opera Pia 11/a.
The event is organised by the BSc programme in Electronic Engineering and Information Technology and the MSc programme in Electronic Engineering at the University of Genoa. Here is the link to register: From Battery to Core. Seminar by Enrico Pardi, Apple Italia – Fill in the form