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Open-source Hardware Journey

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Mission: Design a Chip at $0

Empowering Semiconductor through Online Learning

VSD pioneered the art of connecting the correct resources to the community to bring the revolution in VLSI Design process. Over last decade we have done enormous work in open source semiconductor domain via developing training content and enabling students to design silicon grade IP/SoC and also taken till tapeout cycle via Google/Efabless open shuttle program.

Fundamentals to Advanced Concepts in VLSI, ASIC, and FPGA Design

Master semiconductor design with hands-on courses. Build a strong foundation in digital logic, RTL, physical design, and verification for VLSI success.

VSD - Physical Design Flow

This course will cover end-to-end description from basic Device Physics to Chip Design.

VSD - Static Timing Analysis - I

This course will give an eagle’s eye to every timing check that is being performed in current industries for sign-off.

VSD - SoC Design of the PicoRV32 RISCV micro-processor

Freedom to build micro-processors

VSD - Making the Raven chip: How to design a RISC-V SoC

Right time to move from “chip designing” to “chip planning”

Nasscom Certification Program

Digital VLSI SoC Design and Planning

Digital VLSI SoC Design and planning

RISC-V based MYTH + Design Project

Microprocessor for You in Thirty Hours

VSD – Intelligent Assessment Technology (VSD-IAT)

VSD – Intelligent Assessment Technology (VSD-IAT) is expertly built training platform and is suited for designer requirement to offer high-intensity, lab-based RTL2GDS VLSI tapeout workshops tailored for freshers and mid-level professionals. These workshops start with basic concepts and gradually build complexity and highlight is the emphasis on using a consistent technology node, addressing common industry confusion.

RISC-V Microarchitecture Implementation

Complete Pipelined RISC-V CPU micro-architecture/store

Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation Technology, Verilog, and Functional Verification, Getting acquainted with Simulation Tools

FPGA Design

RTL design and synthesis and Design for Test (DFT)

CMOS Analog Circuit design

SoC design and implementation

IP Design

Analog PLL

Bandgap IP Design

Memory Design - SRAM IP Design

Static Timing Analysis

Physical Verification & Tapeout

Manufacturing, Packaging and Testing

VSD Students Say

Completed a comprehensive program on RISC-V on FPGA and OpenFPGA, covering design and architecture, tools for analysis and simulation, and implementing RISC-V cores on FPGA, supported by the Open-Source FPGA Foundation and industry experts. Gratitude expressed to mentors, contributors, and fellow participants, highlighting the program's goal to democratize hardware design

Glenn Frey Olamit Design Engr. 2 at Lattice Semiconductor

"The Chip Design for High School Program surpassed my expectations, offering an engaging and beneficial learning experience. The course content and teaching methods, combined with interesting lab sessions, made the program highly impactful. However, pacing the session uploads to three per week would improve the overall experience."

Student from Standard 10th

Successfully completed a 10-week research internship at VLSI System Design, focusing on designing a 4-Bit Asynchronous Up Counter in the Physical Design domain using open-source tools like Ngspice, Xschem, and OpenROAD. Utilized the FOSS 130 nm PDK from Google and SkyWater Technology Foundry.

Partha Singha Roy Electronics Hobbyist

VSDSquadron Projects

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VSDSquadron

RISC-V and VLSI Educational Board

$15

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VSDSquadron Mini

CH32 RISC-V

Lower Power Embedded Board enabling Edge RISC-V Product Development

$37

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VSDSquadron FM

ICE40UP5K

Easy to use FPGA Board with high LUT count for rapid prototyping

$45

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VSDSquadron Pro

FE310-G002 RISC-V

Advanced RISC-V Board supporting edge AI compute

$220

VSDSquadron

Caravel RISC-V

RTL2GDSII flow based open source tools

Chip Design for High School

“Chip Design for High School” is designed for students from 6th grade to early college — no matter their background — this free program introduces the magic of chip design, the technology powering our favourite gadgets. Parents can feel confident knowing their child will gain real-world skills, ignite their creativity, and learn from top experts in a supportive and safe environment.

Converting RISC-V Verilog RTL to GDS using EDA Tools: A Beginner's Guide

Step-by-Step Guide to Programming RISC-V Development Board
From low power IoT Application to Verilog Code: Steps to build customized RISC-V core

VSD RISC-V Roadshow

VSD is conducting RISC-V Roadshow across India to create awareness about RISC-V and its potential to develop skilled manpower for India’s growing chip design ecosystem. This program will introduce students to foundational chip design concepts and explore exciting career opportunities in this sector.

Participants will gain insights into various aspects of electronic design, from RTL coding to physical implementation, and learn how RISC-V connects embedded systems, firmware, and hardware. The roadshow will highlight the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in driving innovation and shaping careers in the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry.

Converting RISC-V Verilog RTL to GDS using EDA Tools: A Beginner's Guide

Step-by-Step Guide to Programming RISC-V Development Board

From low power IoT Application to Verilog Code: Steps to build customized RISC-V core

VSD RISC-V Roadshow

VSD is conducting RISC-V Roadshow across India to create awareness about RISC-V and its potential to develop skilled manpower for India’s growing chip design ecosystem. This program will introduce students to foundational chip design concepts and explore exciting career opportunities in this sector.

Participants will gain insights into various aspects of electronic design, from RTL coding to physical implementation, and learn how RISC-V connects embedded systems, firmware, and hardware. The roadshow will highlight the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in driving innovation and shaping careers in the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry.

VSD - Advance Certification Program

VSD is working towards creating innovative talent pool who are ready to develop design and products for the new tech world. VSD believes in “Learning by doing principle” , and always prepare the student to apply the knowledge learned in the workshops, webinars and courses.

Product Based RISC-V Skilling Program

Exploring RISC-V ISA and its application in product-based environments

$149

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VSD-Hardware Design Program

SoC design planning using the revolutionary Google-SkyWater 130nm process node within the OpenLANE flow

$450

Features Include :

SoC Design and Implementation

Program by SFAL, Synopsys, and VSD

$1100

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Registration for Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop

Welcome to Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop

The “Ethical RISC-V IoT Workshop” at IIIT Bangalore, organized in collaboration with VSD, is a structured, educational competition aimed at exploring real-world challenges in IoT and embedded systems. Participants progress through three stages: building an application, injecting and managing faults, and enhancing application security. The event spans from May 9 to June 15, 2024, culminating in a showcase of top innovations and an award ceremony. This hands-on hackathon emphasizes learning, testing, and securing applications in a collaborative and competitive environment.

Rules :
  1. Only for Indian Student whose college is registered under VTU
  2. Only team of 2 members can Register
  3. Use only VSDSquadron Mini resources for product development
Awards :
  1. Prize money for final 10 Team
  2. 3 Winner team’s Product will be evaluated for Incubation
  3. 7 consolation prizes
  4. Completion Certificate to final round qualifier
  5. Chance to build a Proud Secured RISC-V Platform for India

Date for Registration : 9th May - 22nd May, 2024
Hackathon Inauguration : 23rd May 2024

VSDSquadron (Educational Board)

VSDSquadron, a cutting-edge development board based on the RISC-V architecture that is fully open-source. This board presents an exceptional opportunity for individuals to learn about RISC-V and VLSI chip design utilizing only open-source tools, starting from the RTL and extending all the way to the GDSII. The possibilities for learning and advancement with this technology are limitless.

Furthermore, the RISC-V chips on these boards should be open for VLSI chip design learning, allowing you to explore PNR, standard cells, and layout design. And guess what? vsdsquadron is the perfect solution for all your needs! With its comprehensive documentation and scalable labs, thousands of students can learn and grow together.

VSD HDP (Hardware Design Program) Duration-10 Week

With VSD Hardware Design Program (VSD-HDP),  you have the opportunity to push the boundaries of what exist in open source and establish the new benchmark for tomorrow.

It will leverage your degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering to work with

  • Programmable logic
  • Analog/ digital IP
  • RISC-V
  • Architecture & microprocessors
  • ASICs and SoCs on high-density digital or RF circuit cards
  • Gain hands-on knowledge during design validation and system integration.

Sounds exciting to just get started with expert mentors, doesn’t it? But we are looking for the next generation of learners, inventors, rebels, risk takers, and pioneers.

“Spend your summer working in the future !!”

Outcomes of VSD Online Research IP Design Internship Program

  1. Job opportunities in Semiconductor Industry
  2. Research work can be submitted to VLSI International journals
  3. Participate in Semiconductor International Conference with Internship Research Work
  4. Paper Publications in IEEE Conference and SIG groups
  5. Tape out opportunity and IP Royalty
  6. Interact with world class Semiconductor designer and researchers
  7. Academic professions where more research projects are encouraged.
  8. All the above research and publication work will help colleges and institutes to improve accreditation levels.

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VSD – Intelligent Assessment Technology (VSD-IAT)

VSD – Intelligent Assessment Technology (VSD-IAT) is expertly built training platform and is suited for designer requirements. Semiconductor companies understand the value of training automation and Engineer performance enhancement, and do not need to be convinced of the impact of a virtual platform for learning. VSD trainings are quick, relevant, and easy to access from any device at any time zone.

VSD Intern Webinars

VSD Interns made it happen !!

VSD is working towards creating innovative talent pool who are ready to develop design and products for the new tech world. VSD believes in “Learning by doing principle” , and always prepare the student to apply the knowledge learned in the workshops, webinars and courses. We always push our students to work on new designs, test it and work continuously till it becomes the best performing design. Any student who enrolls to VSD community starts working with small design and grows with us and develops a tapeout level design with complete honesty and dedication towards the Work !!

Check out VSD Interns Achievement!

VSDOpen Online Conference

Welcome to the World’s only online conference in Semiconductor Industry VSDOpen Conference. With enormous support and global presence of audience from different segments of industrial lobby and academia made a highly successful event. Evolution is change in the genetic makeup of a population over time, online conference is one kind evaluation everyone adapt soon. 

  • VSDOpen 2022 is an online conference to share open-source research with the community and promote  hardware design mostly done by the student community.
  • VSDOpen 2022 is based on the theme “How to lower the cost to learn, build, and tapeout chips ?”  , which will provide a platform to community to build stronger designs and strengthen the future of Chip design.
  • VSDOpen is envisioned to create a community based revolution in semiconductor hardware technology.
  • The open source attitude is required to bring out the talent and innovation from the community who are in remote part of world and have least access to the technologies.  And now Google support will help to bring the vision to execution by VSD team

VSD Online Course by Kunal Ghosh

VSD offers online course in complete spectrum of vlsi backend flow from RTL design, synthesis and Verification, SoC planning and design, Sign-off analysis, IP Design, CAD/EDA automation and basic UNIX/IT, Introduction to latest technology – RISC-V, Machine intelligence in EDA/CAD, VLSI Interview FAQ’s.

Current Reach – As of 2021, VSD and its partners have released 41 online VLSI courses and was successfully able to teach  ~35900 Unique students around 151 countries in 47 different languages, through its unique info-graphical and technology mediated learning methods.

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