Established in 2010, our VLSI & Embedded System Research Laboratory has been advancing through research in various fields of electronics engineering, and providing knowledge by delivering information to the students. The researchprojects carried out in this laboratory is focused on a wide area of research in the fields of VLSI, reconfigurable computing and embedded technology. Some significant design projects have been published in various journals and conferences. A brief account is given below:
Infrastructure / Facilities available:
EDA tools for VLSI design :
1. Cadence (2010-2014): Cadence VLSI tool consisting of Analog/Digital front-end and backend and High speed PCB Design tool. Virtuoso(R) Analog Design Environment Virtuoso(R) Schematic VHDL Interface Virtuoso(R) Schematic Editor Verilog(R) Interface Assura(TM) Layout Vs. Schematic Verifier Allegro PCB Design XL. Spectre Circuit Simulator
2. Mentor Graphics IC Nanometer Design Bundle Tools (HEP-1) (2014-present)
The tool provides a complete environment for the VLSI design, capture, layout and verification of analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The tool includes,
The Pyxis suite of IC design tools
Schematic capture, netlisting, simulation set-up and results viewing. Physical layout Editing, schematic-driven layout, and top-level floor planning and routing.
Questa ADMS and Questa AMDS RF - A language-neutral, mixed-signal simulator
that enables top-down design and bottom-up verification of multi-million gate analog/mixed-signal SoC designs.
Eldo and Eldo RF - An analog simulator offering numerous simulation and modelling options that deliver high-performance and high-speed simulation with the accuracy required by the user.
ADiT™ - A fast-SPICE simulator built specifically for analog and mixed signal applications. Calibre - The industry standard platform for physical verificationand design for manufacturability of deep sub micron integrated circuits, offering superior performance and capacity for both flat and hierarchical algorithms.
Calibre xRC- Accurate transistor-level, gate-level and hierarchical parasitic extraction.
Tools for Embedded system and Reconfigurable computing
3. XILINX Integrated Synthesis Environmentfor synthesis and analysis of HDL
designs ISE foundation Chip scope pro 4. Xilinx FPGA products Spartan 3AN Starter kit Virtex 5ML 501 evaluation and development board
5. pSOC boards(From Cypress Inc):
As the name suggests, this can be used to design one’s own SOC programmatically, we are researching on using this in designing a “Lab-on-a-chip”, where students can configure it to setup any laboratory experiment in the field of “Electronics and Communication”.
6. ARM 7 platform ARM-7 LPC2148 IDE for ARM 7 RFID kit Touch screen interfacing kit GSM modem interfacing kit Graphic LCD interfacing kit
Signal Processing and Embedded design:
7. MATLAB
MATLAB Simulink Real time workshop Target support package Embedded IDE link Real time workshop embedded coder Signal processing toolbox Signal processing block set Communication tool box Communication block set Fixed point toolbox Simulink fixed point Matlab report generator Control system toolbox
8. Digital Signal Processing
Texas TMS320C6713 development kit. Code composer studio IDE
Major research work carried out in this laboratory
Low power combinational circuit design using Cyclic Combinational Gate Diffusion Input Technique: Low power High Speed CMOS OP-AMP design High Speed ALU design using full swing TG Low power high speed ring modulator based VCO design Design & study of low power high speed full adder circuits. Sequential & combinational circuit design using ternary logic Reconfigurable modulator based on Ternary Logic Configurable modulator design using ternary logic Design & study of low power high speed Look ahead Carry generator Compressed Sensing Image Reconstruction using Multichannel Fusion and Adaptive Filtering GDI dual edge triggered DFF design Low power Vedic multiplier design using GDI Adiabatic logic for low power and low noise systems. Hybridization of adiabatic logic and CMOS logic. Adiabatic logic for reversible computing. A true “Lab-on-a-chip” Processor with reconfigurable DSP system
Training program carried out
1) Winter workshop on VLSI & Embedded System Design, a training program carried out in this lab during January 2014. 2) Summer workshop on (i)Embedded System Design Using Microcontrollers and FPGA (ii)Processor Architecture and System-on-Chip Design Duration: (25.06.14-11.07.14)
