NIT HAMEER PUR/ VLSI RESOURCES AVAILABLE/TOOLS

         Tools

                       VLSI RESOURCES AVAILABLEhttp://www.nith.ac.in/smdp/tools.html

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:     

• MEMS-Pro/ TANNER Tools: Perpetual License (5 Users)
• OrCAD: Perpetual License (10 Users)
• MATLAB: Perpetual License (10 Users)

                  

                    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