VLSI Lab

Objectives of the laboratory:- The objectives of a VLSI Design lab include:

  • Learning the fundamentals: Students learn the fundamental principles of VLSI circuit design in both the digital and analog domains
  • Hands-on experience: Students gain hands-on design experience with professional design platforms
  • Exposure to EDA tools: Students gain exposure to EDA tools
  • Device modeling: Students learn about device modeling
  • Research: Students participate in research activities
  • Learning HDL: Students learn Hardware Descriptive Language (Verilog/VHDL)
Sr. No. Name of Equipment Image Brief Description (key feature) of each Equipment
1. Cadence Design Software Suite • Cadence Design Systems offers a suite of tools for electronic design, including:
• Circuit design
• A schematic-driven approach for creating and connecting components, building hierarchies, and managing design variants
• Simulation
• A suite of tools for verifying designs at various stages of development, including analog and digital simulations
• Layout design
• A layout editor for laying out circuits in the physical domain, including hierarchical design, design rule checking (DRC), and layout-versus-schematic (LVS)
2. Symica Custom IC Design toolkit

An Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool for the analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design. Key features include

  • Ability to select analog behavioral, digital or transistor-level views.
  • Flexible simulation environment.
  • Compatibility with industry standard SPICE netlists, models and analysis features.
  • Verilog-A behavioral modeling.
  • Accuracy for critical analog circuits tested against industry proven standards on more than 1700 test cases.
  • Powerful waveform viewer.
3. Visual TCAD

VisualTCAD is a graphical user interface for device simulator Genius. VisualTCAD is capable of device simulation of 2D and 3D, SPICE circuit simulation and mixed device/circuit simulation. It consists of the following modules

  • Device structure drawing tool
  • Circuit schematic capturing tool
  • GUI simulation controller
  • Visualization tool of simulation results
  • Spreadsheet
  • X-Y plotting tool
4. Computer systems To run various softwares in the laboratory
5. Logic Analyser 34 Channel An electronic instrument that captures and displays multiple signals from a digital system or a digital circuit. It is an excellent tool for verifying and debugging digital designs.


Name of officials handling the laboratory:

Dr. Jyoti Kedia, Lab. O/I
Associate Professor, Department of ECE, PEC, Chandigarh
Dr Jasbir Kaur, Lab. Joint O/I
Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, PEC, Chandigarh
Dr M. Imam, Assistant O/I
Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, PEC, Chandigarh
Jaswinder Singh, Lab Technician,
Department of ECE, PEC, Chandigarh
Pardeep Kaur, Lab. Assistant,
Department of ECE, PEC, Chandigarh