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VLSI Research and Education in the Present Scenario
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FOREWORD BY THE CONVENORS
The VLSI design is considered as one of the major fields of tremendous interest in
industry & academics. It has interdisciplinary relevance. At present VLSI is the emerging
area of interest among the researchers and engineers from Information Technology,
Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering. It is reported that around 5000
Engineers per year would be appointed by the VLSI industry in India in the coming
years. In order to cope up with this demand, we require at least 10 times as many
engineers and researchers as India is producing now. The proposed activities of VLSI
education at Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (BESUS) targets to
cater to the needs of potential researchers and engineers in this field.
SCENARIO AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL
Recognizing its immense potentiality, Department of Electronics
(DOE), Government of India formed a VLSI task force and Steering Committee in mid
1980’s at the national level with late Prof. B Nag ( Director, IIT Bombay) as its
Chairman. As per the recommendation of this Committee, DOE established nodal centers
in 5 IITs and a few other leading institutions like IISc., CEERI etc. IITs started offering
VLSI courses from mid 1980’s. Two distinct directions emerged at the national level –
(i) innovative design of system/sub-system on a chip; and
(ii) design of efficient CAD tools.
Evolution of Semiconductor Technology
• Small scale integration (SSI)
– Gates, flip-flops
• Medium scale integration (MSI)
– Multiplexer, decoder, adder, register
• Large scale integration (LSI)
– IO processor, floating-point unit, memory
• Very large scale integration (VLSI)
– Processor, memory, ASIC