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                       VLSI RESOURCES AVAILABLE

The Department of E&C Engineering provides several resources for the use of students, staff and faculty. E&CE offers access to electronic equipments, EDA tools and information used in the various courses taught during the course of undergraduate and post-graduate studies. Additionally, E&CD maintains a very popular VLSI Design and Simulation Lab, Computer and Electronic Simulation lab and MEMS Design Centre cum lab for UG & PG students and faculty. The major EDA Tools and software s available are:     

                  

                    EDA Tools/ Hardware/ Software Facilities 

The VLSI Design & Simulation Laboratory established under VLSI Thrust Area Project & SMDP-II Project. It is a fully air conditioned & well furnished with all new modern furniture. The following EDA Tools/ Hardware/ Software Facilities have been received from MC&IT, DIT, Govt. of India under SMDP-II project & the Institute in E&CE Department, NIT Hamirpur HP:

1.  Cadence Tools Bundle: 10 licenses

  •  Full Custom/ Analog/ Mixed Signal/ RF IC Design Flow
 
  •  Formal Verification
 
  •  HDL Based Design Flow
 
  •  DFM
 
  •  Technology CAD
 
  •  High Speed PCB Design Flow
 
  •  DFT/ATPG

 

2.  Synopsys SoC Tools Bundle: 5 licenses

  • PrimePower 
 
  •  System Studio filter Design Tools
 
  • Pathmill
 
  •  System Studio ECC Model Library
 
  •  TetraMAX Iddq Test
 
  •  Prime Time SI
 
  •  TetraMAX DSMT Test
 
  •  NanoSim
 
  • TetraMAX ATPG 
 
  •  LEDA Checker
 
  •  Formality
 
  •  VCS MX
 
  • Pioneer NTB with Vera
 
  •  System Studio RDK
 
  •  DC Ultra
 
  •  DFT Compiler MAX
 
  •  Design Analyzer
 
  •  CosmosScope
 
  • HDL Compiler Verilog
 
  •  Astro Rail
 
  •  Library Compiler
 
  •  Astro Basic UDSM Place and Route
 
  •  Module Compiler
 
  •  Astro XTalk
 
  • Power Compiler 
 
  •  Astro, Exdpress Tim. Closure Op
 
  •  VHDL Compiler
 
  •  CosmosLE
 
  •  Physical Compiler Add-on
 
  •  CosmosSE
 
  • Design Ware Library 
 
  •  JupiterXT
 
  • Design Ware Developer 
 
  •  Milkyway Environment and Run
 
  • System studio  
 
  •  HSPICE
 
  •  Star-RCXT
 
  •  Hercules DPMT Add-on
 
  •  Hercules
 
  •  Magma Tools Bundle
 
  •  5 licenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. CG-CoreEl for Mentor Tools Bundle 5 licenses

    IC Nanometer Design

Analog and mixed-signal design, full custom IC design, physical 
verification and extraction consisting of:


  •  Eldo
 
  •  Advance MS
 
  •  Advance MS RF
 
  •  Mach IC
 
  •  IC stations
 
  •  Calibre Physical Verification
 
  •  Calibre xRC extraction
 
  •  Caliber yield analyzer
 
  •  Calibre OPC Verify
 
  •  Calibre Mass Data Preperation
 
  •  Time it

 

4.  HDL Design Verification and Test

HDL design (VHDL-Verilog-System C simulation, FPGA and ASIC synthesis, design-for-test, formal equivalence checking, hardware-software co-verification, system modeling cabling design) consisting of:

  •  ModelSim simulation and verification
 
  •  FPGA Advantage
 
  •  Precision Synthesis
 
  •  Leonardo Spectrum
 
  •  Design For Test Tools (DFT insight, DFT Advisor, BSD Architect, 
 Fastscan, Macro Test)
 
  •  Seamless Co-verification
 
  •  Seamless FPGA
 
  •  System Vision
 
  •  Logical Cable
 
  •  Questa
 
  •  Formal Pro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.  CoWare tools: 5 licenses

  •   Coware Signal Processing Designer 4.x with Communication Library
 
  •   Coware  Signal Processing Designer 5-XP with Communication Library
 
  •   Coware Platform Architect and Model Designer
 
  •   Coware Processor Designer Generic IP Libraries

 

6.  NuHorizons for Xilinx software

A number of FPGA prototyping boards.



7. HCL PCs and Peripherals

(a)

3 No. of Opteron-based PCs with 4 GB of main memory, 19" TFT monitor and 64-bit RHEL WS 4.x.  

(b)

9 No. of P4-based PCs with 2 GB of main memory, 19" TFT monitor and 64-bit RHEL WS 4.x. 

(c)

2 No. of external DVD writer, 1 no. of LJ 1320n, 1 no. of  Cisco 2950-24

 
(d)

One HP Laser Jet 1320n printer

 
(e)

Structured cat-6 network cabling

 

 8.	
15 KVA (as 2 * 7.5 KVA parallel mode) online UPS with 30 Minutes of battery backup
   9. 
Cisco 2950-24 Ethernet Switch, 24 ports 10/100 
Mbps, Network Manageable (SNMP support)
 
10. 

Tanner EDA Tools & SOFTMEMS EDA Tools: 10 Licences

           T-SPICE

           L-EDIT

           W-EDIT
   11.

MEMS EDA Tools

           COMSOL Multi Physics (30 Class Kit Lics)

           Intellisuite

           MEMS+

           Coventorware

 

12.

Xilinx              

Softwares Description

Quantity

  • ISE 8.2i

1

  • EDK 8.2i

1

  • SysGen 8.2

1

  • CSP 8.2i

1

  • Plan Ahead 8.2i

1

Hardware Description

 

  • Spartan 3E

15

  • Virtex 2 Pro

5

  • DIO5

5

  • AIO1

5

  • Compact flash 512 MB

10

  • 256 DDR MB RAM

5

  • V DEC boards

5

 

 

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