Overview: An integrated circuit (IC) or Microchip is a set of electronic circuits on a small chip. An IC is the fundamental building block of all modern electronic devices. Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is a stream of electronics engineering which involves the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining many metal oxide silicon transistors onto a single chip.

Scope of VLSI Design: The VLSI sector is a high-paying industry and immune to automation. It is expected to create an environment to scale up the semiconductor ecosystem.

There are a variety of career opportunities in product companies; design services companies and electronic design automation (EDA) companies. Product and application domains of VLSI include mobile and consumer electronics, computing, telecommunications and networking, data processing, automotive, healthcare and industrial applications.

“In simple words, VLSI circuits are everywhere from your computer to your car, your brand new state-of-the-art digital camera, cellphones, and whatever electronics item you have,”

• Hardware:
• ZedBoard Zynq-7000 ARM/FPGA SoC Development Board for ES, AI and IOT Applications
• Software Tools:
• Licensed Software:
• CADENCE
• MATLAB for Xilinx System Generator SimuLink Tool
• Open Source:
• XILINX ISE
• VIVADO
• Tanner EDA Tool
• MAGIC
• MICROWIND

• Entuple Technologies
• CoreEl Technologies
• Edveon Technologies
• ISVE-Indian Society for VLSI Education

• The students are trained to understand the complete VLSI design flow using various industry-standard Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools like Cadence, Vivado etc.
• The Syllabus of VLSI Design has been designed to cater to the ever-changing demands of the VLSI industry and needs of the society through research.
• The focus areas of this domain include Digital IC design, Analog IC Design, Semiconductor Devices & Modelling..

• Students have received course completion certificate on CHIP DESIGN AND FPGA SYSTEM DESIGN (CDFD-2024) from ISVE(Indian Society for VLSI Education)
• Students have completed MICROCHIP UNIVERSITY certifications on Programmable Logic, FPGAs and SoC
• Students have taken NPTEL certifications on
  • System Design Through Verilog
  • VLSI Design Flow: RTL to GDS
  • Hardware Modeling Using Verilog
  • VLSI Signal Processing
  • CMOS Digital VLSI Design
  • Introduction to Semiconductor Devices
  • Digital Design with Verilog

• Students will have an in-depth understanding of VLSI Architecture and Verilog Programming.
• Students will be able to understand FPGA Prototyping and Physical Verification.
• Students will be able to design and develop real time projects using Protocols such as UART, Wi-Fi, SPI, I2C for Embedded System, AI and IOT Applications.

Patents/Publications The students of Placement Empowerment Program Centre for VLSI Design would be encouraged to publish the papers in journals/ present papers in conferences and to file patents based on their original research work carried out by them as part of the program. It is expected that around 25 publications and 10 patents would be filed for the research work carried out under the Projects.

Project Categorization With a focus to develop frugal solutions around societal problem, it is envisioned that, under the PEP VLSI Design, the project would be initiated in the following key areas:

• Application of VLSI in AI and ML
• Application of VLSI in Cyber security and Cloud Computing
• Application of VLSI in Bio-Medical Engineering
• Reconfigurable Architecture for Robotics
• Reconfigurable Architecture for Surveillance
• Applications using Reversible Logic Gates
• VLSI circuits for IOT Applications
• FPGA Controlled E-Vehicle
• Low Power VLSI Circuits
• FinFET Technology
• VLSI using thin-film transistor (TFT)
• Network on Chip

Start-ups R and D proposals in these areas would be developed by our team of students. The purpose of this categorization is to raise the level of technical expertise by the way of developing Working Prototype and to facilitate Start-ups/MSMEs for taking this forward to commercialization.

• Students have received course completion certificate on CHIP DESIGN AND FPGA SYSTEM DESIGN (CDFD-2024) from ISVE(Indian Society for VLSI Education)
• Students have completed MICROCHIP UNIVERSITY certifications on Programmable Logic, FPGAs and SoC
• Students have taken NPTEL certifications on
• System Design Through Verilog
• VLSI Design Flow: RTL to GDS
• Hardware Modeling Using Verilog
• VLSI Signal Processing
• CMOS Digital VLSI Design
• Introduction to Semiconductor Devices
• Digital Design with Verilog

Dr. P. LATHA is a dedicated faculty with over 24 years of Experience. Her interests are in VLSI Design, Reconfigurable System on Chip, Wireless Sensor Network, Image processing, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing. She has published more than 20 papers in National/International Conferences and Journals. She has Received Rs.13,67,000/- for MODROB PROJECT scheme titled “Integration of image processing, DSP and IOT applications with high end FPGA Technology” from AICTE in the academic year 2018-2019. She has been invited as resource person and given talk on “VLSI DESIGN”, FPGA for Low Power IoT and IOT APPLICATIONS WITH FPGA TECHNOLOGY.