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Resources& Facilities

The state of the art VLSI Lab comprises of high end machines running major VLSI software on Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms. The VLSI Lab is supplimented by the facilities of allied labs as well.

Hardware:

 

Demo Boards

 

 


MEMEC XCS10-3C Demo Board
XESS - XC 4005XL PC84C - 3C Board
XESS - XC2S50TQ144 - 5C Board
Xilinx JTAG cable
Silicon Microsystems(SIMS) UVLSI - XC2S100 - 5C Board +
       Max 3128 Daughter Board FPGA - Xilinx Spartan 2 CPLD -        Altera Max 3128
Altera UP2 Board
SIMS - GPIO - Board
SIMS - PIC - 16F877 Board


 

Servers

 



HP Proliant ML350 G3: 2 Nos
  Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz / 533 MHz – 512 KB, 4 GB PC2100 DDR   
  SDRAM, 2 x 72 GB HDD
Intel Pentium 4: 1 No
  3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 2 x 72 GB HDD


 

Clients

 




Intel Pentium 4: 5 Nos
  1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 2 x 72 GB HDD

Intel Pentium 4: 15 Nos
  1.9 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD

AMD Athlon XP: 2 Nos
  2.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD

Intel Pentium 3: 30 Nos
  500 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD


Software: [ Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Magma and more ]

Cadence Tools

 

Analog & Mixed Signal ASIC Design Tools

 

Custom Front End Tools

   Design Entry

 

1. Virtuoso Schematic Composer
2. Virtuoso Schematic Composer VHDL interface
3. Virtuoso Schematics Composer Verilog interface
4. Cadence Analog Design Environment

   Circuit Simulation

 

5. Virtuoso Schematic Composer HSPICE interface
6. Cadence Electronic Design for Manufacturability Option
7. Cadence SPICE
8. Spectre Analog Circuit Simulator
9. Spectre RF Simulation Option.
10. Cadence Analog HSPICE interface option
11. AMS Designer.
12. AMD Environment.

 

Custom Back End Tools

 

 
  Layout

      13. Virtuoso XL Layout Editor

Digital ASIC Design Bundle

 

 Digital Front End

 


   Functional Simulation

 

14. Cadence NC-Verilog Simulator
15. Cadence NC- VHDL Simulator
16. Verification Cockpit
17. Cadence NC- SIM Simulator

   RTL Synthesis

      18. Ambit Building Extreme (BGX100)


 

Digital Back End

   Physical & Place and Route

 

19. Nano Encounter
20. Celtic Crosstalk Analyzer for cell-based Designs

 

Tools Common to Digital and Mixed Signal Design

   Physical Design for manufacturing

 

21. Assura DRC
22. Assura LVS
23. Assura RCX
24. Pacific Static Noise Analyzer For Custom Digital ICs
25. VoltageStrom (Gate and Transistor)

 


   Interfaces

 

26. Cadence Design Framework Integrators Toolkit
27. Virtuoso EDIF 200 Reader
28. Virtuoso EDIF 300 Connectivity Reader / Writer
29. Virtuoso EDIF 300 Schematic Reader / Writer
30. Allegra PCB Design HDL 610
31. Allegro PCB SI 610

 

PCB Design

 

30. Allegra PCB Design HDL 610
31. Allegro PCB SI 610

Mentor Graphics Tools

 

ModelSim
Leonardo Spectrum
FPGA Advantage below

Magma Design Automation Tools

 

Blast Fusion

 

Blast RTL
Blast Create
Blast Plan
Blast Fusion
Blast Rail
Blast Power
Blast Noise
Blast Logic

Free Downloads

 

MAGIC Layout Editor
Alliance CAD Tools
OCEAN
Iverilog
Irsim
Gtkwave
ISE Webpack

 
 
 
 

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