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VLSICore deals with VLSI design on SoC / ASIC / FPGA design flows. It includes,

  • Digital Logic design, Full-Custom/Semi-Custom design.
  • Microprocessors, DSP, Telecom more.
  • Technology: 32nm, 20nm, 14nm and beyond.
  • Foundry: TSMC, GF, UMC, IBM, Tower
  • Standard / IO Cell library preparation, Intellectual Property [Memories, SRAMs, DRAMs, PCI, USB, Audio/Video CODEC], VDSM/UDSM.
  • Verilog, PLI, VHDL, EDIF, System Verilog, SystemC
  • Design Entry, Simulation, Formal Verification, Synthesis.
  • Floorplanning, HF Net Synthesis, Placement, Clock Tree Synthesis, Routing, Physical Verification, RC Extraction, DFM, OPC, Tape-Out.
  • Shell, Perl, Tcl, Python, Tk/Tix, Scheme, C/C++, API, ...
  • Analog design, SPICE, Simulation, RF, PLL, High Speed CMOS, MEMS, ...
  • DFM (Design for Manufacturing)
  • EDA: Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor, Magma, ATopTech, Oasys, Xilinx, Altera, Atmel, ...
  • Open Source EDA tools, Open Source : ASIC design and technology.

Monday, March 30, 2009

VLSI Video Lectures from NPTEL (from IIT/IISc)

VLSI Design - Video Lectures from NPTEL (from IIT/IISc)
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL)
For more details on NPTEL - visit http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd - YouTube Videos

Electronics - Digital VLSI System Design
55 videos
Lectures by Prof S.Srinivasan,
Dept of Electrical Engineering,
IIT Madras


Electronics - VLSI Design
40 videos
Lecture Series on VLSI Design by Dr.Nandita Dasgupta, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras.


Source: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL)

Fedora Electronic Lab

Design, Simulate and Program electronics.

fel

Fedora's Electronic Laboratory is dedicated to supporting the innovation and development of opensource Electronic Design Automation (EDA) community.

Fedora Electronic Laboratory provides a complete electronic laboratory setup with reliable open source design tools in order to meet one's requirements to keep one in pace with current technological race. Project management tools such as spreadsheet, gantt diagram, mindmapping tools.... are also included.

This Electronic Laboratory can either be deployed by:

  • yum or
  • a Fedora Electronic Lab LiveDVD

Introduction

"Fedora Electronic Lab" targets mainly the Micro-Nano Electronic Engineering field. It introduces:

  • a collection of Perl modules to extend Verilog and VHDL support.
  • tools for Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) Design Flow process to the Fedora Collection.
  • extra open source standard cell libraries supporting a feature size of 0.13µm. (more than 300 MB)
  • extracted spice decks which can be simulated with gnucap/ngspice or any spice simulators.
  • interoperability between various packages in order to achieve different design flows.
  • tools for embedded design and to provide support for ARM as a secondary architecture in Fedora.(Fedora-arm)
  • It is intended for electronic, VLSI students and hobbyists for educational purposes..

Featured Applications

The Fedora Electronic Laboratory includes design tools for:

What is Fedora

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system.

Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.

The Fedora Project is out front for you, leading the advancement of free, open software and content.

Technical Support

Please use the Fedora Electronic Lab mailing lists for technical support related to fedora.

History

25 November 2008 FEL 10 Cambridge released
28 August 2008 FAB approved "Fedora Electronic Lab" LiveDVD spin
30 May 2008 FEL 9 Sulphur released at Linuxtag2008
08 November 2007 FEL 8 Werewolf released
16 August 2007 FESCo approved "Fedora Electronic Lab" as a feature

Glossary

ASIC : Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
EDA : Electronic Design Automation
VLSI : Very Large Scale Integration, about 10⁶ to 10⁷ transistors

Source: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/