Lord Banshee
Junior Member level 2

OK i am a senior about to get my BS in EE after 4-5 more classes, but i feel there are many things i still do not know or understand and this is one of them.
I have taken all the undergrad digital classes we offer in our department (Digital Logic(learn about gates) , Microprocessor Apps( hardware/software interfacing), Digital Design (VHDL using FPGA), and Computer Architecture ( use VHDL/Verilog to design a MIPS32 CPU). I have learn a lot about implementing digital circuit in reprogrammable devices such as FPGAs and CPLD but what i do not understand if what if i wanted to get a ASIC design of my circuit?
Is there software like the software i use for FPGA design, Quartus, that takes logic gates and HDL and makes a simplistic layout of transistors ready to be sent to a FAB? Or does every ASIC have to be designed from transistor to transistor? I have not taken a class yet with the CMOS transistor designing, in one more week i will start it, Digital Integrated Circuits, as i am sure this will clear up some confusing. But till then what steps from start to finsih do companies take to go from logic gates to HDL to actual ASIC IC chips?
Thank and looking forward to the response,
Chris
I have taken all the undergrad digital classes we offer in our department (Digital Logic(learn about gates) , Microprocessor Apps( hardware/software interfacing), Digital Design (VHDL using FPGA), and Computer Architecture ( use VHDL/Verilog to design a MIPS32 CPU). I have learn a lot about implementing digital circuit in reprogrammable devices such as FPGAs and CPLD but what i do not understand if what if i wanted to get a ASIC design of my circuit?
Is there software like the software i use for FPGA design, Quartus, that takes logic gates and HDL and makes a simplistic layout of transistors ready to be sent to a FAB? Or does every ASIC have to be designed from transistor to transistor? I have not taken a class yet with the CMOS transistor designing, in one more week i will start it, Digital Integrated Circuits, as i am sure this will clear up some confusing. But till then what steps from start to finsih do companies take to go from logic gates to HDL to actual ASIC IC chips?
Thank and looking forward to the response,
Chris